Saturday 19 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 1-3) INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, APPLEBY.-A Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, was held at the Shire Hall, Appleby, on Tuesday last, by Chief Commissioner REYNOLDS. There were two petitions for hearing-viz., that of John JACKSON, of Ambleside, and Mrs. STEPHEN, of Kirkby Stephen, grocer. The discharge of both of the insolvents was opposed, but ineffectually. THE LATE DR. RAMSAY, OF DRUNGANS AND DALLASH.-Dr. RAMSAY, whose death, at 15, Melville Street, on the 8th inst., in his 80th year, was recorded in our paper of Saturday last, possessed, and through a long life exercised, qualities and accomplishments which well entitle him to remembrance. A son of Jas. RAMSAY, Esq., sometime of Drungans, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Dr. RAMSAY was born in the city and became a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. On taking his degree, at an early age, he settled as a physician in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where his eminent qualifications soon secured him extensive practice, and the first place in the medical profession, which he maintained with distinguished honour for nearly half a century. He resolved to retire from practice in 1834, and his eminence and the estimation in which he had been held may well be appreciated by the terms of an address on the occasion by his professional brethren, which was published by them in the journals of the day, particularly in the Newcastle Chronicle, of the 1st of March, 1834, from which we quote:-"The medical practitioners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne have solicited and obtained the consent of Dr. RAMSAY to have an engraved portrait of himself from a picture in his possession." In making this request to Dr. RAMSAY, they say:-"Though they are aware that if any man more than another is averse to the language of adulation, it is Dr. RAMSAY, yet they trust they may be allowed to state, that they are influenced on the present occasion generally by their respect for his amiable character as a man and his eminent qualifications as a consulting physician, his urbanity of manner, his frankness in communicating his views, and, above all, his presiding benevolence of disposition, invariably evinced in his rare and happy art of strenuously promoting the welfare of his patient, with all due regard to the feelings, opinions, and reputation of the general practitioner." It were needless to add, that the spirit of liberality and kindness indicated by this enunciation was equally honourable to the members of the medical profession of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the gentleman who was the object of their esteem and regard. Although holding the station in the medical profession in Newcastle-upon-Tyne thus alluded to by his brethren, and absent from Scotland nearly half a century, Dr. RAMSAY had at all times been closely connected with his native country as a landowner, and by correspondence with the friends and associates of his early years: and although he had recently before purchased an estate in England, in the neighbourhood of Alnwick, on his retiring from Alnwick he chose Edinburgh as his place of residence, where he arrived with his family in June, 1834, and continued until his death. To the learning of his profession and great general literary acquirements, he had a fine taste and exact knowledge in antiquities and the fine arts. But above all these, he was characterised by a benevolence of temper, exhibiting itself not only in the form stated by his professional brethren, but habitually productive of liberality, a kindness, and an urbanity of manner which originally gained and permanently preserved for him a degree of general favour, which neither time nor professional rivalship either diminished or impaired. In politics, of the school and warmly attached to the principles, and it may be added to the persons, of Charles James FOX and Charles, now Earl GREY, Dr. RAMSAY was a Whig in the best sense of the term-liberal, independent, straightforward, zealous, and consistent throughout his whole life. His remains were interred in the family burying-ground in the church yard of Dumfries, his funeral having been conducted, according to a wish expressed by himself, in a letter addressed to a friend, in a strictly private and unostentatious manner.-Correspondent of the Scotsman, July 16. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday last, John BELLAS, of Little Strickland, a labourer on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, was killed on the line near that place by the falling of a quantity of earth upon him. When the accident occurred the unfortunate man was undermining a portion of earth for the purpose of facilitating its removal-a dangerous mode too often had recourse to, when it gave way and completely buried him. He survived but a few moments after being extricated. Both his thighs were broken, and his head and other parts of his body were dreadfully injured. He has left a wife and seven young children to lament his untimely fate. An inquest was held on the body the following day, before Mr. THOMPSON, coroner, and a verdict in accordance with the above facts was returned. CASE OF POISONING AT LOCKERBY.-We understand that in the case of Mrs. WALKER, Lockerby, at present a prisoner in the Jail of Dumfries, an indictment was served on Saturday last, and that her trial before the High Court of Justiciary will take place on the 29th curt.

Saturday 19 Jul 1845 (p. 2, col. 8) INSOLVENT DEBTORS.-A Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors was held at the Court House, on Saturday last, before Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDS, and the following were the cases which occupied the business of the court:- MORRIS DAVIS, furrier, Carlisle. Discharged forthwith. ROBERT ASHBRIDGE, miller, Great Corby. Discharged forthwith. MONTAGUE GEO. SMITH, gentleman, Carlisle. In this case Mr. James MOUNSEY applied to have the insolvent's hearing adjourned until next circuit, in conseqenece [sic] of the insolvent having omitted to insert in his schedule, the present holder of a bill of exchange accepted by the insolvent, and upon which proceedings had been taken against the insolvent within a few days. The insolvent had inserted all the indemnities but the present holder. His honor [sic] granted the application. The bail to be enlarged.

Saturday 12 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Deaths. At Carlisle Castle, on Tuesday the 1st instant, after an illness of two days, Lieutenant Henry SAUNDERS, of the 89th Regiment of Foot, aged 20 years. In Blackfriars' Street, on the 6th inst., Mrs. Eleanor GRAHAM, aged 68 years. In King Street, on the 4th inst., Mrs. Sarah ORD, aged 25. In Water Street, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Elizabeth SAWYERS, aged 90 years. In Botchergate, on the 5th, James Irving ROSE, aged 11 years. At the London Road, on the 5th inst., Mrs. Jane THOMPSON, aged 55 years. At Dalston, on the 30th ult., Mrs Bebecca [sic] BOYD, widow of the late Captain BOYD, aged 62 years. At 87, Jermyn Street, St. James's, London, on the 5th instant, Elizabeth, daughter of the late John EWART, Esq., of Brampton, Cumberland, aged 54 years. At No. 15, Melville Street, Edinburgh, on the 9th inst., John RAMSAY, Esq., M.D., of Dungans and Dallash, and formerly of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At Wigton, on the 5th inst., Mary, wife of Mr. Jos. ADDISON, aged 49 years; on the 8th, Ann, wife of Mr. James ARMSTRONG, aged 62 years. At Belton Park, near Wigton, on the 7th inst., Thomas, sixth son of Mr. WATSON, aged 20 years. At Toxteth Park, Liverpool, of consumption, on the 5th inst., William, the second son of Daniel SMITH, stonemason, late of Crookdake, Cumberland, aged 42 years. At Nook, Irthington, on Wednesday the 2nd inst., of apoplexy, very sudenly [sic], Miss Lucy BELL, aged 58 years. At Penrith, on the 6th inst., Mary, wife of Mr. John DEMAIN, aged 67 years; same day, Mr. Miles MONKHOUSE, labourer, aged 23 years; and same day, Ann WELCH, aged 43 years. At Santon Bridge, on Wednesday week, after a long illness, Mr. Robert BRIGGS, blacksmith, aged 30 years, son of the late Mr. Robert BRIGGS, of Bank House, Gosforth. At Keekle Grove, near Whitehaven, on Monday week, Robert, son of Mr. Henry PERRY, solicitor, aged 15 months. On the 30th ult., at St. Bees Lodge, near Whitehaven, Darnley Verelst, infant son of the Rev. David ANDERSON. In Queen Street, Whitehaven, last week, Mary, wife of Mr. William PENNIMENT, late master of the Prosperous, of that port, aged 54 years. At Distington, on the 2nd instant, Mrs. Elizabeth MOUNSEY, aged 77 years. At Workington, on the 4th instant, Mr. Thomas MURRAY, aged 27 years; same place, on the 5th, Mrs. Jane PATTINSON, aged 80 years. At Mockerkin, Loweswater, on Thursday week, Mr. George SMITH, in the 53rd year of his age. At Netherscale, in Embleton, on Saturday week, after a short illness, Mrs. SEWELL, wife of Mr. Joseph SEWELL, farmer, aged 27 years, daughter of Mr. Joshua ROBINSON, of Wythop Hall. At Cockermouth, on Saturday the 5th inst., George, the son of Mr. Adam CORRIE, aged 11 years. At Keswick, on Tuesday week, Mrs. CROSTHWAITE, relict of Mr. Henry CROSTHWAITE, aged 83 years. On the 5th instant, after a protracted illness, Mr. Mark SIMPSON, house steward at Duddon Grove, in the 56th year of his age. Mr. SIMPSON had lived at Duddon Grove upwards of forty years, and was highly and deservedly respected. At Kendal, on Wednesday week, in the 60th year of his age Mr. Miles BIRKETT, late tinman and brazier. At Mallerstang, near Kirkby Stephen, on the 29th ult., Mr. Edward CLEASBY, yeoman, aged 78 years. At Dumfries, on the 27th ult., Mr. John DICKSON, wine and spirit merchant, Bank Vennel,-deeply lamented by all who knew him. At his seat of Wood End, near Chichester, on the 1st instant, suddenly, Lord Seaford, in his 74th year. Charles Rose ELLIS was born in 1771, and was created Baron Seaford in 1839. He was twice married,-to a daughter of Lord HERVEY; and to the widow of Admiral Sir Thomas HARDY. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Lord Howard de Walden, the British Ambassador in Portugal; who inherited his present title and Barony from his maternal grandfather the Earl of Bristol, the Earldom going to another branch.

Saturday 12 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Marriages. At St. Cuthbert's Church, on the 8th instant, Mr. WELSH, tailor, to Mrs. Mary GIBSON, widow; on the same day, Mr. John Stockdale HODGSON, bookbinder, to Miss Mary NICHOL. At St. Mary's Church, on the 4th inst., Mr. John HILL, print cutter, to Miss Mary Ann CORBETT, both of Scotch Street. At the Superintendent Registrar's Office, in this city, on the 2nd July, Mr. John NELSON, of South George Street, weaver, to Miss Georgiana DIXON, of the same place; on the 3rd, Mr. Peter EWINS [EWENS according to FreeBMD], of Caldewgate, weaver, to Miss Jane MAVER, of the same place; on the 5th, Mr. Thomas KIRKBRIDE, of Old Grapes Lane, baker, to Miss Mary ROBINSON, of King's Arms Lane; on the 3rd, Mr. Henry BEATY, of Dalston Green, cotton spinner, to Miss Elizabeth, WIGHTMAN [WEIGHTMAN according to FreeBMD], of Dalston Forge; and on the 4th, Mr. John CARRUTHERS, of Newlands, husbandman, to Miss Jemima JEFFERY [JEFFREY according to FreeBMD], of Stanwix. At Wetheral, lately, Mr. William HOWE, joiner and cabinet maker, of this city, to Miss Jane THOMPSON, dressmaker, of Scotby. At St. James's Chapel, Whitehaven, on the 1st inst., Mr. Wm. WILLIAMSON, ship carpenter, to Miss Sarah ANDERSON. At the parish church, Workington, on the 5th inst., Mr. Robt. THOMPSON, of Maryport, to Miss Margaret HAYTON. At Embleton, lately, Mr. George ALLEN, of Workington, to Miss STODDART, only daughter of the late Mr. STODDART, of Wythop Mill; Mr. John PLUMMER, of Byersteads, in Embleton, to Miss Mary Ann MANDLE, of Wythop. At Edgehill Church, in Liverpool, on Wednesday week, Capt. BLEASDALE, of Edgehill, to Miss COWARD, of Halt Hill, Cheshire, late of Ulverston. At the parish church, Ulverston, on Tuesday week, Mr. Anthony HIGH, tailor, to Miss Mary HODGSON, dressmaker; same place, on Wednesday, Mr. Henry TOWNSON, of Bare, near Lancaster, coachman, to Miss Mary Ann HOLMES, of Ulverston. At Kendal, on Tuesday week, Mr. Thomas GREENWOOD, grocer, to Miss Margaret WHITE, both of that town; same place, Mr. William HODGSON, to Miss Alice MUSGRAVE; Mr. William BARRETT, to Miss Hannah RAMSDEN; Mr. Tobias HUTCHINSON, of Skelsmergh, to Miss Jane KIRKBRIDE.

Saturday 12 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 3-4) ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ----- We are not responsible either for the principles, the reasonings, or the statements of our correspondents, for by merely inserting their sentiments we neither adopt nor deny them. ----- THE NICHOL FOREST GHOST STORY. To the Editor of the Carlisle Journal. Sir,-In your account, last week, of Isaac MILBURN's "Ghost Story" and the disinterment of the late John JOHNSTON, of Baxton Gill, you have given publicity to several falsehoods which I feel called upon to refute. Had you confined yourself to facts merely as they occurred, I would have felt very much obliged to you, as I court enquiry on the subject. My motive for having my late uncle's grave opened was not as you have represented it, to prove my innocence of the crime which Isaac MILBURN charged me of, by touching the body to see if blood would flow; and I cannot but feel indignant at what you represented as having taken place at the opening of the grave. You say "that I was in an agony of suspense until the coffin lid was removed," and that "I touched the skull rather gingerly," and one of the crowd cried out, "haud your finger down harder;" no blood flowing, you said that "I cried I am an innocent man. Hurrah, shouted the crowd," &c. &c. Now, sir, I can prove that not one word was spoken to the the [sic] above effect that day. My motive for what I did, was simply this: Isaac MILBURN having circulated his story about seeing the ghost, accusing me such a horrible crime; although no sensible person gave credit to it, yet many persons did believe it, or at least pretended so; and as Isaac had said if we opened the grave we should find the corpse in the same state of preservation as when it was interred, I knew of no other way to undeceive such people but by opening the grave, that it might be seen by every person what credit ought to be given to MILBURN's story. And I can assure you that the grave was opened in a very decent manner, and not one word was spoken about touching the bones to see if "blood would flow." The surgeon lifted the skull out of the coffin and desired that it might be washed, which was accordingly done, and no fracture being found, the ribs were examined (not taken out and washed as you say) and no marks of violence being found, the skull was again placed in the coffin and the grave closed up again. What you denominated a crowd, consisted of three and twenty persons, some of them are respectable farmers under Sir James GRAHAM. But, you say, that it is melancholy to reflect that there should have been some unpleasantness on the very day of the old man's death. This, sir, I positively deny. My uncle had been visibly declining for a considerably time previous to his death, and I can assure you "he was not cut off with a potato," as he died about eight o'clock in the evening (and not at his noontide repast, as you say) in the presence of his own servants-viz., James CAIRNS, from the parish of Cannobie, and Margaret SOWERBY, from the parish of Denton; and George BEETHAM and his wife, who lived in a cottage next to my uncle. Several respectable females in the neighbourhood assisted in laying out the corpse, who are yet alive, and can testify whether any marks of violence were seen about the body. And I can assure you the old man had no intention whatever of cutting my sister and me off with a shilling, for he remarked, more than once, to a man whom he often consulted about his affairs, and who assisted in making his will, that if he did not leave what he had to my sister and me, that he would not be acting honestly, as we had helped him in the management of his farm for twenty-five years. I make no doubt, sir, but you have given the story as it was represented to you, but what I have stated above I am ready to prove, and I hope you will give it place in your paper this week. I am, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES GRAHAM. Thorney Know, July 9, 1845. P.S.-I may add that Isaac MILBURN is an out-door pauper in the Longtown Union. ["Jemmy" has now had his say; but his comments only go to substantiate our statement of last week. Let us see how he establishes the "several falsehoods" with which charges us. "My motive for having my late uncle's grave opened was not," he says, "as you represented it, to prove my innocence of the crime which Isaac charged me of, by touching the body to see if blood would flow." Now Jemmy afterwards admits that he was accused of the crime-that there was a report that the corpse would be found as perfect as when buried, and that he knew "no other way of undeceiving the people but by opening the grave." And it is past all doubt that many of the parties present believed in the superstition as to blood flowing, and although Jemmy protests he did not, yet he ministered to the belief by touch- [sic] the bones and washing the skull to satisfy them. Where then, is the falsehood,-in our assertion, or in Jemmy's charge? Again he says-"The skull was placed in the coffin and the grave closed again." What did we say? "The remains of poor Jock o' the Gill were then put back into the grave." The difference in the statements being the difference between six and half-a-dozen. But it seems that "what we denominated a crowd consisted of three and twenty persons;" and a pretty numerous crowd too, for the little church-yard of Kirkandrews-upon-Esk. We suppose Jemmy intended to ask us how many men make a crowd. We ask, in return, of Jemmy, how many wells make a river? As to some of the men being "respectable farmers under Sir James GRAHAM," we can only say-the more fools they for their pains. Jemmy says he can prove that nobody said "haud down your finger harder." Our little bird, on being consulted on this point, reasserted it, with the addition that as no one could tell where the sound came from, it was believed to be from Jock o' the Gill's wraith, which was no doubt underground, and wished to keep Jemmy's nose to the grindstone-just as the Ghost of Hamlet moans to his son, "remember thine oath." There are some other points which the shrewd reader will find out for himself, and will best answer by referring to our statement. In one, we are glad to say Jemmy is right: we did give the story as it was represented to us; and we are sure all Nichol Forest will give him credit for correcting any inaccuracies into which our little bird may have fallen. Our Printer's Devil (who believes in spirits) swears he has been twice visited by Jock o' the Gill's wraith, and threatened with a smell of brimstone for daring to doubt his identity; though, perhaps, the apparition may be traced to the fact of the young rogue being awakened early one morning by his mother, in her nightdress, to take a spoonful of treacle and brimstone. We have heard of treacle, and other articles of commerce being "up;" it would now seem that "spirits" are rising.

Saturday 12 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 4) INQUESTS. ----- (Before W. BRAGG, Esq., Coroner.) At Workington, last week, on view of the body of Thomas MURRAY, ostler at the new New Crown Inn, in that town. The deceased had conveyed a party to Whitehaven on Thursday, in a tub-gig, to join the steamer that evening, and did not reach home until a late hour. On Friday morning he was discovered lying in one of the stalls in the stable, nearly dead, and his horse in that adjoining unharnessed. The deceased had received a bruise on the head, but whether by a fall from his seat on his reaching home, or in jumping off, could not be satisfactorily ascertained from the two lady passengers whom he brought with him. Under these circumstances the jury returned as their verdict, that the deceased "Died of concussion of the brain, but whether from a fall or otherwise could not be ascertained." The deceased was a quiet, inoffensive man, and has left a widow and two children to lament his sudden death.

Saturday 05 Jul 1845 (p. 2, col. 2-3) An old woman named LEES, 82 years of age, residing at Galashiels, has been murdered by her daughter, who strangled her. She is insane. SUICIDE BY A COACH PASSENGER.—On Monday last, a gentleman named STALKER, who was a passenger on the Rapid coach, which runs between Lancaster and Carlisle, got off the coach at Milnthorpe, and immediately ran off to the river at a short distance. The driver and a passenger followed him, but when they arrived at the river the gentleman was drowned. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, a serious accident occurred to James EDGAR, a young man employed in the colliery of Mr. BENN, at Bolton, near Wigton, by a portion of the roof of the mine falling on him whilst at work—crushing the bones of his knee and lacerating the blood vessels so much as to render the amputation of his leg absolutely necessary to save his life. The operation was skilfully performed by Mr. R. NIXON, surgeon, of Wigton, and the unfortunate sufferer is now progressing favourably towards recovery. DR. GOODENOUGH, LATE DEAN OF WELLS. The will of the late Dean of Wells has been proved by the executors and trustees, Mrs. F. GOODENOUGH, his relict, and S. P. COCKERELL, Esq., Lincoln's Inn. Personal estate under £50,000. Bequeaths to the dean for the time being of Christ church, Oxford, the large picture of the portraits of Archbishop DOLBEIN, Bishop FELL, and Dr. ALLESTRY, as well as the portrait of Lord Primate ROBINSON, as heir-looms to the deanery for ever, with a request that they may be hung in the public dining room or other apartment the dean may approve. Bequeaths to his wife £2,000 for her immediate use, and all the household furniture and moveable effects, carriage and horses—and leaves her the whole of the residue for her life for the support of herself and children, and after her decease the residue to be divided among the children; but in the event of her second marriage, then his children who are of age are immediately to receive therefrom annuities of £200 a year each. To two of his servants he has left legacies of £50.—Bell's Weekly Messenger.

Saturday 05 Jul 1845 (p. 2, col. 4-5) SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ----- "By my faith a marvellous story."—OLD PLAY. [continued] But Isaac had lost the power of utterance, and could only think, without saying this. The ghost was equally dumb, and, without breaking silence, "faded with the crowing of the cock." Next morning Isaac felt queer about his head—which he cured with a dram—and thought, as for the ghost, he must have been dreaming. He went to bed on the following night, and what happened we give in his own words, and from his own manuscript:— "STATEMENT OF ISAAC MILBURN. "The apparition of John JOHNSTON, late of Baxton Gill, in this township, did appear to me on the nights of the 6th and 7th of June, 1845, and I spoke to it on the morning of the 8th of June, about 6 o'clock, and the following conversation ensued between us:— "ISAAC MILBURN—What do you want with me? "GHOST—I came to acquaint you with the manner of my death, and what my effects were left, and I cannot get rest in consequence of both. "ISAAC MILBURN—What do you want me to do, or what can I do in the concern? "GHOST—My death was occasioned by blows, which I received from my nephew. First blow was struck on the back of my head, and when I was down I was kicked on the left side by the foot. From that blow I came by my death. This was all he said respecting his death. "ISAAC MILBURN—I inquired what was to be done with his effects. "GHOST—He answered, that if he had lived a few days longer he would have altered his will; but he wished that Jane FORSTER should get £20, Peggy JOHNSTON £12, and Wm. JOHNSTON and his wife should have £16 between them. "ISAAC MILBURN—When is the money to be paid? "GHOST—He was answered, immediately. "ISAAC MILBURN—I said that I thought the whole, or the most part, of Jemmy's money, was invested in the Thorny Knowe, and that with regard to him, I thought it was not a proper time for him to pay his share of the money. "GHOST—He replied, that what I said might be true, and that he would give until Christmas, and if it is not paid, then I will come back to them (James and Betty), and if possible I will tear them in pieces; but I will first come to you before I appear to them, and I will get rest now till that time (Christmas.) "But I forgot to mention, that he requested me to seek the Coroner, and get a jury, and hold an inquest over his body, and it will be seen the blows which occasioned his death." There is another thing that Isaac forgot; and it is, that on the re-appearance of the ghost, having now got on familiar terms with it, he jumped up and, seizing what he supposed was a bible, edified Jock's wraith with a short extempore prayer, grasping the bible with fervour the while. He left it open at the page from which he had taken the text, and laid it aside. On looking at it next morning he found the book was an old treatise on Horse and Cattle Medicine and Farriery. To proceed with our story, Isaac told his neighbours about the apparition—what he had said and what the ghost had said—and told Jemmy on his return from Hawick races. Jemmy was annoyed at it, exceedingly. He went to his father to ask his advice, for he could not endure to be thought a murderer, and he began to fear for next Christmas, when, for anything he knew, the ghost might again take a fit of walking. Jem o' the Scug, an intelligent yeoman who, by his industry, has become well to do in the world, has, it would appear, no faith in spirits, for, when consulted, his reply was, "hoot, hoot, lad, let him walk on—he'll sune tire o' that—keep the siller, and keep quiet, gin ye be wise." But Jemmy was not satisfied. He had heard that if a guilty man suspected of murder touched the bones or body of the corpse blood would flow—if it did not it was proof of innocence; and he determined on having Jock o' the Gill raised from the dead. The parties to whom the ghost had referred as defrauded, by Jemmy's alleged crime, of what he intended to give them, were equally anxious for the disinterment, and it was set about without delay. On Thursday week Jemmy and his friends went to the church-yard, at Kirkandrews-upon-Esk to open the grave. Some one suggested that, before the ground could be legally broken, the clergyman's leave must be obtained, and as that was wanting they desisted. But on Friday they returned at day-break. Whether the clergyman had or had not been consulted, we do not know; but there were Jimmy and his friends, the expectant legatees, two respectable surgeons from Longtown, and many other spectators who went out of idle curiosity; the active resurrectionists being duly supplied with pickaxes and shovels. The ground was opened, and the coffin raised. Jemmy was in agony of suspense until the lid was removed; but when the remains of Jock o' the Gill were exposed, lo! instead of the "perfect corpse" which Isaac MILBURN had led them to expect, there was literally a bag of bones! "Stand back," said a spectator, "we'll sune ken whether he's a murderer or no'." Jemmy tremblingly advanced to the coffin and touched the skull rather gingerly. No blood flowed. "Haud your finger down harder," cried one of the crowd, "we maun do a' things fairly." Jemmy did as he was bidden; still no blood flowed. "I'm an innocent man," he cried. "Hurrah!" shouted the crowd. "But we must look for the bruises," suggested one. "Let us wash the skull and the ribs, and then we shall see," cried another. And the skull and ribs were taken to the river and washed. They were examined by the surgeons, who said there were no marks of violence on any of them. The remains of poor Jock o' Gill were then put back into the grave, and Jemmy and his friends are enjoying the most perfect satisfaction at the result. The legatees expectant are disappointed in a corresponding degree. What we have related above is no fictitious tale. The statement is substantially, nay, almost literally true. Our Printer's Devil, who is a shrewd young rogue, suggests that the "methody parson" must have lost count of his tumblers when left in charge of Jemmy's farm, and dreamed he saw Jock o' the Gill's wraith; and that may be Jemmy played two midnight freaks in his uncle's clothes, with the view to give Isaac a "flay." The report in Nichol Forest is that the wrong grave has been opened!

Saturday 05 Jul 1845 (p. 2, col. 4-5) SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. ----- "By my faith a marvellous story."-OLD PLAY. Lord BYRON protests that "truth is strange-stranger than fiction;" and when we have done with our narrative our readers will be convinced that the poet was right; for the story we are about to tell, all the circumstances considered, is more extravagantly ludicrous than any invented by the wildest romancer, and were it not that the parties who figure in it are living, and that their freaks were seen by numerous individuals, it would be incredible. Whatever wonders may be wrought by time, it should seem that in our own county, and within a stone's throw of the residence of the Home Secretary of "the most enlightened nation in the world" there are men who are still influenced by superstitions which, we had wrongly imagined, were buried in oblivion,-heard only from the lips of the ancient-ballad monger, or read in the pages of PERCY. Now to our tale. In the parish of Kirkandrews-upon-Esk, which, fringing Scotland as it does, may be properly termed a border-parish, there lived within the memory of very young people, a yeoman, by the name of John JOHNSTONE. At least that was the name the parson gave him: he was better known afterwards as "Jock o' the Gill." In his district a name of this description is considered rather complimentary than otherwise: it is, in short, a mark of distinction that has prevailed since the good old times of Clym of the Cleugh and William of Cloudesly. Well, Jock o' the Gill was an industrious, thrifty farmer who, by exercising through a long series of years the caution of making a prisoner of every sovereign he earned, had accumulated a store which not only supported him in comfort during his declining years, but enabled him to make some little provision for his nephew and niece,-James and Elizabeth GRAHAM, or, as he was wont familiary to call them, Jemmy and Betty,-who lived with him and who had helped him for a number of years in the management of his farm. The three lived together, for the most part, happily; but, as little tifts will arise in the best regulated families, it is not extraordinary that there was occasionally a "difference." It is rather melancholy, however, that there should have been some unpleasantness on the very day of his death, which is just six years ago. The morning's work was over, and Jock, Jemmy, and Betty, were seated in the kitchen, at their humble noon-tide repast. From some cause or other which does not appear-whether it was that the bacon was too fat, the potatoes not enough, or the buttermilk sour, we have not heard-high words were bandied about. Betty having said something to rouse Jemmy's combativeness, without more to do he laid down his knife and fork, aimed an unmanly blow with his fist at her face, and, before the old man could say Jack Robinson, she was sprawling on the floor-and there she lay insensible. What Jemmy did, or what Jock did-whether Jock, attempting to speak in the act of swallowing a potatoe had choked himself, and Jemmy, alarmed, had fled for assistance, our little bird has not been able to inform us; but certain it is that when Betty came to herself again her assailant had disappeared, and her uncle, apparently sharing her own fate, was lying like a lifeless thing on the floor-with a potatoe in his mouth. There was no assistance at hand, and she therefore set about to raise him from the floor and place him on the "swab" or settle. He was dead. So runs the story as it is told and believed in the neighbourhood. It does not appear that it made much noise at the time, or that suspicion attached to Jemmy; for Jock o' the Gill was quietly gathered to his fathers in the parish church yard, without any Coroner's inquiry, and his nephew and neice, forgetting their trifling disagreement on the day of the old man's death, made all things up again, and amicably divided the uncle's property between them, under the will which he had made to that effect. Betty went to live with her father Mr. James GRAHAM of the Scug-better known as Jem o' the Scug-and Jemmy, the son, until recently, tilled the lands which had proved so profitable to his uncle. Fortune smiled on him: he went on prosperously in his calling; and, with the assistance of an occasional windfall, in the shape of a lucky bet or two on the turf, (for it should seem he is somewhat of a sporting turn,) he bought, not long ago, the estate of Thorny Knowe, in Nichol Forest, on which he now resides. But Jemmy has had his troubles. Neighbours began to whisper that had old Jock o' the Gill lived a day longer, Jemmy would not have been the man he is now, for that Jock had intended, on the very next day, (had he not himself been cut off with a potatoe) to have altered his will and cut both Jemmy and Betty off with a shilling. Jemmy however, like a sensible man, paid no attention to these idle tales; he ploughed his fields, reaped his harvests, and held his kurn suppers without caring for the gossips. We have already said that he does a small matter on the turf. On the 1st of June, this year, he went to Hawick races, leaving in charge of his house one Isaac MILBURN, who, to a sprinkling of knowledge as to the curing of pork, adds a smattering of the more spiritual business of the cure of souls. In short, Isaac MILBURN is a retired itinerant methodist parson, who can rap out a prayer upon occasion, with a good nasal twang, without caring for either COBBETT or Lindley MURRAY. Finding himself in a strange bed room on the first night, he took the prudent precaution of examining the room to see if all was safe, before committing himself to the sheets. He looked under the bed and behind the curtains; and found nothing there that could interfere with his orisons before lying down, or his snoring afterwards. Report says that, having taken a stiff tumbler of whiskey-toddy before going to bed, he forgot that night to say his prayers. But this is neither hither nor thither: the best men are absent sometimes. He had neither to count the slow passing of a flock of sheep or to imagine the dropping of water to court slumber; he snored loudly till 12 o'clock. The sound of the last "chap" awoke him, and at the same moment the colley dog, in the farm yard, set up a furious barking. Being rather dry, he stretched his hand out of bed for the water jug, and was conveying it to his lips when the latch of his bed-room door was lifted with a gentle but palpable click. Isaac let fall the jug, and looked towards the door. There was a figure coming towards the bed. "Who the devil's there?" cried Isaac, forgetting that he was a parson. The figure made no answer, but advanced to the bed-side. Isaac trembled from head to foot, and his hair stood on end. His first impulse was to hide himself under the bed-clothes; but, afraid of smothering himself, he decided on facing the figure, who seemed to be a very gentlemanly fellow, whoever he might be, for he made no noise, and never spoke, which gave the parson time and courage to eye him attentively. The figure had on an old blue coat, a patched red coloured velveteen waiscoat, and corduroy breeches. "By G-," exclaimed Isaac, (again forgetting he was a parson) "it's Jock of the Gill's wraith!" To think that a ghost was in the room, and he alone! He was "distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear;" or, to use his own more homely words, he "fell into a muck of a sweat." The words of Hamlet rushed on his mind:- "Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . O answer me, Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonised bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements! why the sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned Hath ope'd its ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, . . . . Revisitst thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous?" [to be continued]

Saturday 05 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 7-8) Deaths. In King Street, on the 26th ult., Mr. James BROWN, aged 74. At the House of Recovery, on the 27th ult., Mary JACKSON, aged 22 years. In Annetwell Street, on the 26th ult., Mr. Robert GRANGER, aged 67 years. At High Hesket, on the 30th instant, Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. James Hodgson ILLINSWORTH, in the 18th year of her age,-much and deeply lamented. At Abbey Lanercost, on the 1st instant, the Rev. George GILLBANKS, in the 90th year of his age. This respected clergyman had been in orders upwards of sixty-seven years, and incumbent of Lanercost, Farlam and Upper Denton, fifty-nine years. For nearly forty years he performed a full service in each of these churches during the summer season, almost invariably walking the distances between them in discharging the arduous duty. At Brampton, on the 29th, Mr. Adam NICHOL, aged 82 years; on the 30th, Henry LEIGHTON, weaver, aged 21 years; and on the same day, Margaret Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. James WATSON, spirit merchant, aged five years. At Penrith, on the 29th ult., Mary PRIESTMAN, aged 82 years; on the 30th, Alfred Henry, infant son of Mr. Thomas PARKER; some [sic] day, Rachael NEVISON, widow, aged 65 years; on the 2nd instant, Mr. John THOMPSON, shoemaker, aged 23 years; and on the same day, Mr. Robert PEEL, aged 70 years. At Low Row, in the parish of Bromfield, on the 28th instant, Nancy, wife of Mr. CLARK, aged 70 years,-much and deservedly respected. At Lowthian Gill, on the 19th ult., Mr. Robert CARRUTHERS, aged 37 years. At Birk Craig, in the parish of Nether Denton, on the 26th ult., Mr. William HODGSON, aged 41 years. At Aspatria, on the 19th instant, Miss Ann CLARKE, aged 61 years,-her quiet disposition and kind and genuine heart endeared her to many friends and acquaintances, by whom her death will be long and deeply felt. At Appleby, on Thursday last, Edward RAILTON, late of Penrith, aged 82 years; same place, also on Thursday last, Mary, wife of John STEADMAN, carpenter, advanced in years. At the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. LADYMAN, joiner, Keswick, where he had been residing for the benefit of his health, on Monday week, Mr. Thomas ATKINSON, shoemaker, a native of Cockermouth, and late servant with Mr. SQUIRES, Bury Street, Liverpool, aged 44 years. At Ings Parsonage, near Kendal, on the 20th ult., the Rev. John AIREY, in the 66th year of his age. Deceased had been incumbent of Ings nearly 32 years. At Floraville, near Whitehaven, on the 23rd ult., William YOUNGHUSBAND, Esq., aged 70 years. At Granby, Whitehaven, on Sunday night last, aged 33 years, Mr. John BARWISE, formerly master of the barque Volunteer, of Whitehaven; at the house of her aunt, Mrs. BACON, in Queen Street, after an illness of two days, Jane, youngest daughter of the late Mr. WHITESIDE, in the 37th year of her age. The recent mortality in the family of the deceased has been truly distressing; her sister, father, brother, and within the past month her nephew (Master CROUCH) who was unfortunately shot at Sandwith, near Whitehaven, have all paid the debt of nature.-In George Street, on Thursday, George, son of Captain Edward FRANCE, aged three months; in Brackenthwaite, Whitehaven, on Friday night last, at the great age of 90 years, Captain John BANKS, formerly and for many years master of the Musgrave, of that port; at the Preston Quarter Workhouse, on Tuesday week, Mr. John NAILE, aged 75 years. At Harris, near Whitehaven, on Sunday last, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William PARTLETON. At Rainors, in Gosforth, on Friday sennight, after a protracted illness, Mrs. WRIGHT, relict of the late Mr. WRIGHT, surgeon, and daughter of the late Mr. HUDLESTON, land surveyor, aged 46. At Cockermouth, on Sunday last, Miss Mary SWINBURN, aged 48 years; and same day, at the Union Workhouse, Mr. William DAVIDSON, sawyer, formerly of Workington, aged 70 years. At Monk Foes, in Whitbeck, on Thursday week, after a lingering illness, Mrs. WILLIAMSON, wife of Mr. Wm. WILLIAMSON, of the above-named place, aged 76 years. At Red How, in Loweswater, on Tuesday week, Mr. IREDALE, yeoman, aged 46 years. At Innerfield, parish of Lochmaben, on Friday, the 27th inst., William WILSON, aged 93 years. Born in 1752, he was baptised by the Rev. Ralph ERSKINE, minister of Dunfermline, one of the fathers of the Secession Church. As Mr. ERSKINE died in 1752, the deceased was, in all probability, among the last to whom that distinguished minister dispensed the ordinance of baptism. Throughout the whole course of his life, this venerable individual maintained a consistent and upright character, and has left a name which will be long cherished with grateful recollection by his sorrowing and surviving children, and also by the Church with which he was connected.

Saturday 05 Jul 1845 (p. 3, col. 7-8) Marriages. At St. Mary's Church, on the 3rd inst., Mr. Robert WARLOW, of Bridge Street, to Miss Sarah GRAHAM, of Willow Holme; on the same day, Mr. Roger LUPTON, to Miss Sarah LOVE, both of Duke Street; same day, Mr. John SMITH, to Miss Ann SMITH, both of Duke Street; and same day, Mr. John LONG, of Duke Street, to Miss Ruth MULLENDER, of John Street. At St. Cuthbert's Church, on the 21st ult., Mr. John BAILEY, moulder, to Miss Elizabeth HALL, both of Botchergate; on the 26th, Mr. John BOWMAN, Blackhall, husbandman, to Miss Margaret DIXON, of Botchergate. At Hodnet, Salop, on the 26th June last, James, eldest son of William CHANCE, Esq., of Spring Grove, near Birmingham, to Eliza, second daughter of the late George FERGUSON, Esq., of Houghton House, near Carlisle. At Howes Cottage, on the 24th ult., by the Rev. Jas. MONILAWS, Mr. Francis Ker FISHBECK, to Jemima Paxton ARMSTRONG, daughter of Mrs. ARMSTRONG, of that place. At Penrith, on the 30th ult., Richard HODGSON, saddler, to Miss Jane CARNES; same day, Mr. Mark PEARSON, labourer, to Miss Ann BROWN; and same day, Mr. GREENBANK, bobbin turner, to Miss Agnes BROWN. At Drigg, on Tuesday week, Jacob GAITSKELL, of Hall Santon, to Mary Ann, only daughter of Mr. Isaac GAITSKELL, of Drigg. At Hail, on Saturday last, Mr. Clement MOSSOP, eldest son of Mr. Chas. MOSSOP, of Thorn Holme, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. John SMITH, Head of Haile, yeoman. At Cockermouth, on Tuesday week, Mr. Robert KIRRUISH, pawnbroker, to Mrs. HODGSON, relict of the late Mr. HODGSON, brewer; same place, on the 30th, Mr. William BRISCO, mariner, to Miss Hannah REED, daughter of Mr. Joseph REED, twine-spinner; same day, Mr. Hugh BARNES, labourer, to Miss Mary DRENNAN [DRENNON according to FreeBMD].

It's a small world! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]tsweb.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barb Ontario Canada Sent: 25 May 2014 17:49 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Journal, BMD, 28 Jun 1845 (2) How very interesting. This death took place about a mile south of my home, just up the highway !! I'll pass this on to the Glanford Historical Society tomorrow morning. Barb, Ontario, Canada. >>>>>At Glanford, near Hamilton, Gore District, Upper Canada, on the 22nd May last, Mrs. Frances GILLESPIE, aged 55 years, wife of Mr. Archd. GILLESPIE, formerly of Denton Mill, Nether Denton,-very much respected.<<<<<<

Saturday 28 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Deaths. In Saddle Lane, Botchergate, on the 24th inst., after a short illness, Jane ROSS, aged 13 years. At Bury, Lancashire, on Friday the 20th inst., Catherine, wife of Samuel HOLKER, Esq., and second daughter of the late Alex. WILSON, Esq., of this city. At Haithwaite, Nichol Forrest, on the 20th instant, Mr. David BROATCH, aged 38 years,-much respected. At Brampton, on the 24th instant, Miss Mary ROBINSON, aged 73 years. At Aikhead, near Wigton, on the 22nd instant, Mr. John CROZIER, aged 19 years. At Low Wiza Bridge, near Wigton, on the 21st inst., Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Mr. Robt. LIGHTFOOT, aged 20 years. At Lowbrow, in the parish of Bromfield, on the 18th instant, Nancy, wife of Mr. CLARK, much and deservedly respected, in her 70th year. At Monkhouse Hill, in the parish of Sebergham, on the 20th instant, very suddenly, Margaret, the wife of Mr. John DOWTHWAITE, in the 52nd year of her age,-deservedly respected by all who knew her-leaving a large family to lament her loss. At Gamblesby, in the parish of Addingham, on the 18th inst., Mr. George BENSON, yeoman, aged 60 years. He attended his usual work and was employed in his fields until last Thursday, when he was suddenly afflicted with pleurisy and in flammation, which he endured, with true patience and resignation to the will of God, until the Wednesday following, when he expired. At Glanford, near Hamilton, Gore District, Upper Canada, on the 22nd May last, Mrs. Frances GILLESPIE, aged 55 years, wife of Mr. Archd. GILLESPIE, formerly of Denton Mill, Nether Denton,-very much respected. At Aspatria East Mill, on the 3rd inst., Mrs. Isabella FURNASS, in her 90th year. Mrs. FURNASS resided at Birdhouse when it was broken into by the notorious Daniel M'CRORY, for which he and his fellow burglars were hung in 1816. The robbers offered no further violence at the time than a temporary confinement in a room necessary to their safety. At Braithwaite, near Keswick, on Friday last, Miss Ann FLEMING, daughter of the late Mr. Thos. FLEMING, butcher, Keswick, aged 44 years. At Bewaldeth, on Wednesday last, Anne, the wife of Mr. Francis GOLIGHTLY, aged 70 years. At Cockermouth, on Wednesday week, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John RITSON, painter, aged 16 years; at the Union Workhouse, on Monday, Jonathan MILLER, soldier, formerly of Keswick, aged 22 years; same place and day, Mrs. Peggy MITCHELL, formerly of Maryport, aged 57 years. On the 13th of February last, whilst on his passage from Liverpool for Bombay, on board the Josephine, of Workington, James M'WILLIAM, aged 17 years. The deceased fell overboard from aloft, whilst in the exercise of his duty. At No. 7, Tangier Street, Whitehaven, on Saturday last, Sarah KING, aged 53 years; in Duke Street, on Tuesday week, Sarah, the wife of Mr. John WAITE, aged 57 years; same place, Mr. Charles NICHOLSON, in the 79th year of his age; in Queen-street, last week, Margaret, the wife of Mr. George RILEY, aged 32 years; on Tuesday week, in that town, Mr. Robert KIRK, in the 70th year of his age. At Egremont, on Tuesday last, Mr. Robert GRAVES, aged 19 years; same time and place, William, son of Mr. Thos. NOBLE, aged nine months. At Beckside, near Harrington, last week, Mr. William FISHER, aged 74 years. At Workington, on the 22nd instant, Miss Jane THOMPSON, aged 22 years.

Saturday 28 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Birth. At Solway House, on the 21st instant., the wife W. C. F. THOMPSON, Esq., of a son. Marriages. At St. Mary's Church, on the 22nd inst., Mr. Francis STEPHENSON, machine maker, to Miss Jane SCALES, both of Scotch-street; on the 21st inst., Mr. George BOND, Duke Street, to Miss Mary CONWAY, Bread Street; same day, Mr. John M'MILLAN, Finkle Street, to Miss Ruth RIDGEWAY, Union Street. At the Superintendant Registrar's Office, Wigton, on the 21st instant, Mr. Jos. GRAHAM, of Aikton, to Miss Elizabeth BELL, of George Street, Wigton. At Wigton, on the 22nd instant, Mr. Joseph ISMAY, mason, to Eleanor, daughter of Mr. Isaac BEWLEY, Highmoor. At Alston, on the 26th inst., Mr. Thomas LEE, of Nenthall, to Miss Ann SPARK, of Garrigill. At Chillingham, on the 19th instant, by the Rev. C. ROBINSON, Vicar of Kirknewton, the Rev. John Woodham DUNN, incumbent of Matterdale, to Sarah Emily, second daughter of the Rev. Luke YARKER, vicar of Chillingham, Northumberland. At Elghaston [sic - presumably Edgbaston] Church, Birmingham, on the 19th inst., by the Rev. Mr. PICKSALL, William, eldest son of Mr. James SLADE, of Whitehaven, to Mary Anne, second daughter of the late George Barrow HAYNES, Esq., of the Island of Barbadoes. In Liverpool, Captain MATCHES, of the Thomas Sparks, of Maryport, to Miss Ann TROHEAR, of the White Lion inn, New Street, Whitehaven; on Monday week, Mr. W. BOWES, ship-carpenter, to Miss Elizabeth WEST, straw bonnet maker, both of Whitehaven. At Crosscannonby, on the 21st instant, Mr. Isaac MILLER, to Miss E. PEARSON; same day, Mr. W. RELPH, to Miss Isabella BROWN. At Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, on Sunday last, Mr. H. BUNN, master of the Free Grammar School, Keswick, to Isabella, daughter of Mr. William HUNTER, butcher, of that town; same place, on Monday, Mr. Joseph SATTERTHWAITE, bobbin turner, to Miss Mary TODHUNTER, both of Keswick; same day, at St. John's church, Keswick, Mr. Joseph HALL, joiner, to Miss Mary WILSON, both of Keswick. At the parish Church, Whitby, Yorkshire, on Tuesday the 10th inst., Thomas PERCIVAL, Esq., only son of the late Capt. T. PERCIVAL, R.N., to Frances Isabella, only daughter of Thomas RICHARDSON, Esq., Union Place, Whitby. At Bampton, on Saturday last, Mr. John KIRKBRIDE, eldest son of Mr. KIRKBRIDE, of Bampton Hall, to Agnes, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert HOGARTH, of Bampton. At Kendal, on Wednesday week, Mr. Thomas Traill MUNRO, vetrinary [sic] surgeon, to Margaret Ann, second daughter of Mr. W. HARTLEY, of the Woolpack inn, both of Kendal; same place, on Thursday, Mr. Wm. BROWN, Glasgow, tobacconist, to Miss Dinah BELL, both of that town. At St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, on the 26th ult., by the Bishop of Rochester, Lord Lovaine, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Beverley, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry and Lady Harriet DRUMMOND. At Nuneham Courtnay, Oxon, on the 21st inst., by the Rev. Dr. WILLIAMS, Warden of New College, Oxford, the Rev. Henry Blackstone WILLIAMS, Fellow of New College, to Christiana, eldest daughter of the Rev. Jas. BAKER, Chancellor of Durham, and Rector of Nuneham.

Indeed, it is !! The Church where I am archivist and the Glanford community have been inter-twined for hundreds of years, with people marrying people from each place. Most of our cemeteries are on-line now, so researching is a joy, to say the least. Providing BMDs to families here is one of my very special joys. A sort of 'payback' for all the help I've had from my British genealogy friends over the last fourteen years.

How very interesting. This death took place about a mile south of my home, just up the highway !! I'll pass this on to the Glanford Historical Society tomorrow morning. Barb, Ontario, Canada. >>>>>At Glanford, near Hamilton, Gore District, Upper Canada, on the 22nd >>>>>May last, Mrs. Frances GILLESPIE, aged 55 years, wife of Mr. Archd. GILLESPIE, formerly of Denton Mill, Nether Denton,-very much respected.<<<<<<

Saturday 28 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 3) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. LEE, Deputy Coroner.) On the 18th instant, at Alston, on the body of John COULSON, aged 60 years, who was found dead in bed on the previous morning. He had for some time laboured under asthma, and had been a casual pauper of Alston parish, and had several times been urged by the Board of Guardians to go to the workhouse, where he would have been much more comfortable than in the miserable hovel where he resided alone. On Saturday last, he was again urged to go to the workhouse; he however, as he had always done before, obstinately refused. The Relieving Officer then, in pursuance of the decision of the Union, gave him an order for one shilling a week in kind, which he accepted, but which he had not used. On examining the house it was ascertained that at the time of deceased's death he had a loaf of wheaten bread, five cakes of yeasted bread, a quantity of sugar and coffee, and four-pence-halfpenny in copper. The friends of deceased wished to impute blame to the parochial authorities. The jury, however, unanimously agreed in acquitting them of all blame, and returned a verdict of "natural death."

Saturday 28 Jun 1845 (p. 2, col. 7-8) There is now living at Keswick a venerable British seaman named MARTIN, who is in the 84th year of his age, and who one day last week undertook to accompany one of the tourists to the top of the far-famed Skiddaw. This aged son of the ocean accomplished his task with so much ease as to excite the astonishment of the gentleman to whom he acted as guide, who candidly confessed that the old tar outstripped him by his activity in ascending the hills. On climbing the mountain the tourist, who felt the effect of weariness, sat down to rest; but the old sailor, who was far a-head of his companion, called upon him to proceed or he should be obliged to leave him! AFFECTING INCIDENT.-We are sorry to hear that one of the passengers who visited Tynemouth from Leeds, on Saturday week, in the full prospect of a pleasing excursion, has been carried back to his native place a lifeless corpse. He had died, it is supposed, a victim to the imprudence of bathing whilst in a weakly condition. He was afflicted with Hernia, and the cold water had produced strangulation of the rupture, causing inflammation, and ultimately, mortification, of which he died on Friday, and his remains were sent home by the train on Saturday. FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Monday afternoon a shipwright of the name of Thomas MONROE, who had just returned from sea, slipped his foot from a stage in FORSYTH's dock, fell into the dock bottom, and was picked up lifeless.-Tyne Mercury. ACCIDENT.-On Saturday last, a young man named Joseph DODD, was killed by a train of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway passing over him accidently, near Fourstones station. He had, the day before, been appointed to the situation of repairer, and was probably not aware of the exact time of the train's passing. The engineer observed him at a little distance, and blew the engine whistle. He was also called to by some workmen near, but his attention being engaged, he was not roused in time to save his life. INQUEST ON MRS. GOULEE.-We stated in our last, that Mrs. GOULEE had died in consequence of the wound inflicted by the pistol shot, fired at her by her husband. On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body, by J. M. FAVELL, Esq., coroner for Durham. The facts proved before the coroner were generally those of which we gave a brief statement, with the exception of the evidence of Mrs. GILES, sister-in-law of Mrs. G. which went to prove that an altercation was going on with respect to the supposed intimacy of Mrs. GOULEE with Mr. SCRUTON, at the very time of that gentleman's appearance in the street, and that it was the wife's proposal to call him in, with a view that he himself might assert her innocence, which led to the unfortunate catastrophe. It was clear from the evidence of Mrs. GILES, that GOULEE was on that evening in state hardly consistent with perfect sanity, which the luckless woman's proposal seemed to bring to a climax, and the perpetration of the deed followed. The wound itself was not a mortal one; the testimony of Mr. GREEN, the surgeon, being direct to the point, that the deceased was doing well, and the wound healing, when Tetanus, and ultimately lock jaw came on. One circumstance deserves remark, and that is the fact of a pocket book having been given by GOULEE after he was taken to gaol to SEWELL, which he asserted to contain some document that bore upon his position. The book was put under seal by the magistrates, and examined by the Coroner, who said, after a minute examination, that it contained nothing that in the slightest degree had reference to the case! This seems to prove either that the miserable man laboured under a decided delusion, or that some document connected with the case was abstracted before the book was sealed up. The Jury, after a lengthened investigation, returned a verdict of manslaughter, finding that "Emma GOULEE came to her death by a pistol shot fired by Louis Henry GOULEE, whilst in a state of great excitement." The Magistrates, after the investigation of the coroner, set on foot some further enquiries, but nothing was elicited in the slightest degree to alter the complexion of the case.

Saturday 21 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Deaths. In George Street, in this city, on the 9th instant, Elizabeth STORDY, relict of the late Mr. Thomas STORDY, a member of the Society of Friends. In the Willow Holme, on the 11th instant, Mrs. Margaret ROWELL, aged 83 years. At St. Mary's Workhouse, on the 16th instant, Mrs. Elizabeth LYNN, aged 62 years. At the House of Recovery, on the 16th inst., Miss Ann BAXTER, aged 18 years. At her father's house, Capon Tree, near Brampton, on the 18th inst., Mrs. Isabella DENT, aged 37 years. At Greystoke, on the 14th instant, Mr. James Mc.COMBE, schoolmaster, aged 21 years. Deceased was a member of the order of Oddfellows, and his remains were followed to the grave by a large number of his brotherhood, scholars, and neighbours, by whom he was much respected and esteemed. At Penrith, on the 18th instant, Mr. John LAWSON, stonemason, aged 53 years. At Pooley Bridge, near Penrith, on the 4th inst., after a long illness, Mrs. Ruth WOOD, widow of the late Mr. Richard WOOD, yeoman, of Martindale, aged 66 years. At Nenthead, on the 16th inst., Mr. William JOHNSTON, agent, aged 54 years. At Workington, on the 9th instant, Ann, wife of Mr. Joseph CASSON, 74 years; on the 10th, Mrs. Jane CLEGG, widow, aged 45; on the 13th, Mr. Geo. HEWITSON, aged 22; and on the 14th, Ann, daughter of Mr. W. LONGCAKE, aged six. At Hensingham, on the 10th instant, Thomas SMITH, Esq., aged 32 years-deservedly respected. At the Bowling Green, near Whitehaven, on the 10th inst., Mr. Lancelot HARRIS, aged 82 years, who for nearly half a century had the charge of that place of amusement. At Whitehaven, on the 10th instant, Mr. James STEWART, aged 77 years; same day, Mrs. Sarah NICHOLSON, widow, aged 87; and at the Preston Quarter Workhouse, on the 15th, Mr. Robt. KIRK, aged 72 years. At Bank Hall, Westmoreland, on the 13th instant, Jane, wife of Mr. Isaac SOWERBY, aged 61 years. At South Cerney, on the 13th instant, Jane, relict of the late Rev. Thos. BOWMAN, incumbent of Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, aged 36 years. At Nais, county of Kildare, on the 10th inst., at the house of her aunt, Mrs. ARMSTRONG's, Isabella, relict of the late Captain Shadrick MOORDAFF, of Harrington, in the 49th year of her age. At Mr. PARKINSON's, Cleator Moor, Mrs. Sarah NICHOLSON, relict of the late Mr. Wm. NICHOLSON, spade maker, Moss Gill, in the parish of Arlecdon, in the 87th year of her age. At Egremont, on the 8th inst., Mr. Jonathan IRVING, aged 57 years, lately of the toll-bar, at that place, highly respected by all who knew him. At Beckermont, on the 7th inst., Mr. Joseph FURNESS, aged 74 years. The deceased was in the service of the late and present Mr. HARTLEY, of Woda Bank, for 47 years. At St. Bees, lately, in the prime of life, Mr. John DIXON, postmaster at that place. At Hall Croft, in the parish of Gosforth, on the 10th inst., the Rev. John GRICE, aged 78 years. The deceased was formerly incumbent of Drigg and Irton, but finding himself incapacitated by infirmity for the efficient discharge of his ministerial duties, he three years ago resigned his situation, in which he had faithfully and zealously laboured for forty-five years.-His remains were interred at Bootle on Saturday last. At Whitehead Brow, on the 16th inst., Mary, the wife of Mr. William SUMPTON, late of the White Horse inn, Bothel, aged 51 years. At Bootle, on the 13th inst., at the house of her uncle-in-law, Mr. Joseph IRVEN, where she was residing for the benefit of her health, Martha, wife of Mr. Sherwen WHINNERY, of Liverpool, and eldest daughter of Mr. William GAITSKELL, joiner, of Bootle, aged 36 years.

Saturday 21 Jun 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Births. At Bongate, Appleby, on the 14th instant, the wife of Mr. Jos. BELL, of a son. At Church-hill, parish of Minnigaff, on the 31st ult., the wife of Mr. Hugh ROBISON was safely delivered of two sons and a daughter. The mother is doing well; but the children survived only a short time. The same mother had twins formerly. Marriages. At St. Mary's Church, on the 14th instant, Mr. Richard ARMSTRONG, Willow Holme, to Miss Margaret CHAMBERS, of Bridge Street, Caldewgate. At St. Cuthbert's Church, on the 17th instant, Mr. John LEE, jun., blacksmith, of Bishop Hill, York, to Miss Sarah BATY, of Bonnell's Lane, English Street. At Kirkoswald, on the 10th inst., by the Rev. G. G. LAWSON, Mr. Robert BATEY, clerk to Messrs. P. DIXON and Sons, Manchester, to Miss Margaret MARK, of Kirkoswald. At the Superintendent Registrar's Office, Wigton, on the 16th instant, Mr. Alfred WATSON, to Miss Mary Ann BELL, both of Langrigg, in the parish of Bromfield; same place, on the 18th, Mr. Joseph PERCIVAL, of Bowness, to Miss Agnes FARLAM, of Longlands Head, in the parish of Kirkbride. At Skelton, on the 2nd instant, Mr. Joseph M. RICHARDSON, of New Rent, in the parish of Hutton, to Agnes, second daughter of Mr. George ARMSTRONG, yeoman, Unthank. At St. Peter's, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, on the 17th inst., by the Rev. Mr. FERGUSON, A.M., Mr. Wm. WILKINSON, flesher, late of Penrith, to Miss Jane BIRKETT, second daughter of the late Mr. BIRKETT, boot and shoemaker, Penrith. At Penrith, on the 14th inst., Mr. John SUTHERLAND, gardener, to Miss Ann PEARSON, dressmaker; on the 15th, Mr. William RELPH, husbandman, to Miss Mary SLEE, straw hat maker. At Langholm, on the 6th inst., Mr. Thomas IRVING, Skippers, to Miss Isabella COULTHARD, daughter of Mr. John COULTHARD, painter, Langholm. At Langholm, on the 6th inst., Mr. Matthew MURRAY, Bentpath, to Miss Divina LUNN, Langholm. At Annan, on the 10th instant, Mr. Joseph HARRINGTON, the celebrated wrestler, to Miss Esther GREAVES, daughter of Mr. John GREAVES, miner, Keswick; same day and place, Mr. Alfred CROSTHWAITE, fuller, of Forge, near Keswick, to Miss T. SIMPSON, daughter of the late Mr. T. SIMPSON, of Borrowdale. At Isel, on the 11th inst., Mr. Wilfred STALKER, of Longclose, to Miss BUSHBY, of Prospect, in Setmurthy. At Bongate, Appleby, on the 16th inst., Mr. Edward WILLIAMSON, horse dealer, Leeds, to Miss DOVER, of the Royal Oak inn, Bongate. At Drigg, on the 15th inst., Mr. Abraham COLEBANK, of Blennerhazel, in the parish of Gosforth, to Miss LEVANS, daughter of Mr. William LEVANS, of Holm Rook, and late of Hallcarleton, in Drigg. At Whitehaven, on the 15th inst., Mr. John GRIBBEN, labourer, to Miss Mary Ann MASSEY, both of that place; same day, Mr. James WILSON, mariner, to Miss J. SCOTT. At St. Bees, on the 10th inst., the Rev. Clement FOX, M.A., perpetual curate of Ponsonby, to Miss SMITH, St. Bees, daughter of the late Rev. J. SMITH, incumbent of Ponsonby. At Ulverston, on the 14th inst., Mr. Wm. BROCKLEBANK, mariner, to Miss A. BUTCHER, both of that town.