Saturday 22 May 1819 (p. 3, col. 1-2) The wheat is in a very forward state in this county, and in some places rye has shot into ear. On Thursday and yesterday, we were favoured, in this neighbourhood, with copious falls of rain, which were much wanted. Mr. CHAPELHOW, printer, Appleby, has been appointed post-master of that place, in the room of Captain AIREY, who has resigned. The officers of several parishes in this county, have already put the new act in force, by removing natives of Ireland and Scotland of short residence who were burthensome. Nothing of the kind has yet been done in Carlisle. Gormandizing.On Monday last, a young man of Wigton, by trade a clogger, undertook, for a wager of five shillings, to eat 36 penny pies, in one hour and a half, weighing 7lb. 3oz. This tender-stomached young man devoured the first 12 in five minutes, but being in rather too great a hurry, he got clogged in his business, and only accomplished 24½ in the given timeconsequently he lost the wager, and also the value of the pies, to the satisfaction of all who witnessed the transaction. On Monday last, as a number of boys were playing near to the mill wheel of Gamblesby mill, near Aikton, in this county, one of them, about nine years of age, the son of John SCOTT, of Gamblesby, unfortunately fell into the mill race, and was crushed to death by the mill wheel, before any assistance could be rendered; the mill was completely stopped, and the body could not got out till a part of the wheel had been broken. ASCENSION DAY, a kind of Saturnalia among the freemen of Carlisle, was celebrated on Thursday, with the accustomed carousings. Early in the morning, the flags were hung out at the windows of the different Guilds, and the drum and fife went about the streets to give the 'note of preparation.' At eight o'clock, the principal gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood breakfasted with the Mayor, at his house in Fisher-street, according to public invitation: the number present was greater than has attended a similar repast for many years. About nine, the cavalcade of coaches, chaises, gigs, equestrians, and pedestrians started for Kingmoor, where a substantial cold collation awaited those why chose to partake of it. The races soon commenced: five horses were entered for the Mayor's Saddle, and the result was as follows: Mr. RIGG's gr. m. (from the Abbey Holme) 1 Mr. J. ROBINSON's b. h. Paddy 2 Mr. WILKINSON's br. m. 3 Mr. LEIGHTON's br. m. 4 Mr. IRVING's gr. m. fell. Six men had levelled the course the on preceding day by order of the Mayor, and such excellent running was never before seen at Kingmoor. At starting, Paddy was the favourite, but the little grey mare beat him in fine style, to the no small mortification of those in the secret, who, it is said, made no very profitable day's work of it. The bridle was won by Mr. WILKINSON's br. m. and the spurs by Mr. SOWERBY: this last race was merely a matter of form. About twelve, there were foot races on the Sands, for prizes given by the Mayor, but the sport was very miserable. George ELLWOOD walked over for the belt and steel. The first hat was won by John HYSLOP, and the second hat by George M'KINNEY. At three o'clock, the Mayor, attended by several members of the Corporation, and various gentlemen, visited the Guilds; as did also a number of the friends of J. C. CURWEN, Esq.Mr. PARKINS, arriving from London just in the nick of time, also paid the freemen a visit, and afterwards addressed an assemblage from the market-cross steps. A party of gentlemen, about 50 in number, dined with the Mayor at the Bush Inn. The dinner and wines were excellent, several good songs were sung, and the evening was spent with great hilarity. About the same number of Mr. CURWEN's friends dined at the Coffee House, John CHRISTIAN, Esq. in the chair. The usual toasts were given, and various gentlemen exercised their vocal powers much to the satisfaction of the company. On Monday afternoon George BROWN, a cotton-spinner, residing in Rickergate, was drowned in the Eden, behind the Swifts, while bathing. Several persons were not far off at the time of the accident, and among them, Sir C. STYLES, Bart. who made the most praise-worthy exertions to rescue the sufferer, but without effect. On Tuesday last, Jenny MANDALE, put a period to her existence by hanging herself in a pantry, at New Mill, in the parish of Ponsonby. She was upwards of seventy years of age, and the motive of committing the rash deed is entirely unknown. Last week, as Mr. George WYLIE, of Innerwell, was (what is called) fishing his nets for salmon, he discovered an adder two feet long, which he killed. At Garliestown, a few days previous, a girl named Jane BIGGS, gathered on the sea-shore some sea-weed or wreck, for burning, some of which she put upon the fire, and in a little time an adder came out of it, which was also killed. What happened to Paul in the island of Melita, will immediately recur to the reader's mind. On Monday last, a blind horse, in a cart, belonging to Mr. James FITZSIMMONS, fell over the Old Tongue, at Whitehaven, and though the height was 20 feet, neither horse nor cart were injured. A serious accident took place on Tuesday last, at Kendal. A man fired at some rats, in the King's Arms yard, when the gun burst, and part of the contents hit a child on the head, while in its father's arms, and wounded it very severely; but we are happy to hear that the child is likely to recover. There is now in the possession of Mr. WOOD, of Cockermouth, a ewe, which last year yeaned two lambs; the same lambs have this year produced two each, and the same ewe, three lambs. In two days, last week, Mr. John BIRKETT, farmer, at Harrington Parks, with the assistance of his neighbours, ploughed, sowed, and harrowed forty acres of land, on Stainburn Common. Within these ten days, two vessels have sailed from the ports of this county, bound to British America with passengers; and another is nearly ready for sea. An ox, bred and fed by Mr. FAULDER, of Ronaldsway in the Isle of Man, (late of Carlisle), was slaughtered last week in Douglas.The carcase, when dressed, weighed 16001b,the tallow 200, the hide 130, the heart 13, the head and tongue 56, total, 1999 lbs. On Tuesday week, a young man named CLOSE, employed in the brick-yards of Messrs FLETCHER and Co. near Newcastle, undertook for a trifling wager to make 7,000 bricks in 15 hours, which task he accomplished in less than 12. In the first 7 hours he made 4,350, being rather more than 620 in an hour.