Saturday 20 Mar 1819 (p. 3, col. 1-2) The Committee for the Employment of the manufacturing and other Labourers out of work, have this week pursued the task confided to them with great earnestness. They have made a collection from house to house, and it will be seen by the list of subscriptions in another column, that the inhabitants have not been backward in affording the required support. In regard to the means of employment, the Committee have adopted a plan that cannot fail of giving universal satisfaction, at the same time that the work is of such a nature as to be readily performed by the most inexperienced. They have determined to construct a bank (similar to that round the cattle market) from the bridge to the castle walk, which will keep the water out of Rickergate as well as out of the cattle market; it will moreover form an excellent and healthy promenade. On Thursday the Committee met for the purpose of receiving applications from those in want of work; sixty-five applied, sixty-four of whom were found proper objects; and yesterday morning they were set to work. We understand that an Amateur Performance will take place at the Theatre, in about eight or ten days, in aid of the Subscription for the Employment of the Poor. The Mayor has given his consent, and there is not the smallest fear of obtaining Mr. M'CREADY's permission. Several of the performers possess considerable talent, and they will be assisted by professional females of some experience: the play fixed upon is Othello. The subscription will be materially augmented by this arrangement. Mr. Robert ANDERSON, justly designated the Cumberland Bard, is at present resident in Carlisle. The friends of the Poet, and the admirers of native genius, will dine together at the Grey Goat, on Wednesday next, and the company will be favoured with Mr. ANDERSON's presence.—See Advt. The Carlisle Canal Bill has passed through a Committee and has been read a second time. It has also been finally examined by Lord Shaftsbury, the Chairman of the Lords' Committees, and will now very soon receive legislative sanction. The making of one million of bricks for the Canal was contracted for this week, and the work will proceed immediately. A vestry meeting was held yesterday in St. Cuthbert's, to consider the propriety of introducing monumental tablets inside the church. A proposition to that effect was carried nem. dis. This City was visited early yesterday morning by a very violent storm of hail and thunder. Margaret PIERSON, late of Fishburn, aged 19, has been committed to Durham county gaol, charged with the wilful murder of her mother. Amongst the many improvements in husbandry, none ranks higher than a piece of ground near Scotby, occupied by Mr. Joseph DALTON. A few years since a part of it was not worth £10 per acre; the produce last year was of more value than would have bought it a few years before the improvement was made. This shows clearly the benefit of close draining and breaking up ground that is little better than waste, while it makes provisions more plentiful, and gives employment to the lower classes, rendering parochial relief nearly unnecessary. Mr. FERGUSON's sale of Stock, at Harker, yesterday week, was well attended, and the lots went off briskly at very high prices. Mr. SPEDDING's sale, two days previous, was also numerously attended. Last week was slaughtered at Stockdale-Wath, near Rose Castle, in this County, two extraordinary sized Swine, bred and fed by Mr. Isaac RUMNEY, of that place: the one a sow, weighing 59st. 2lb. and 6st. of lard; the other a hog, 13 months old, of which the sow was the dam, weighed 41st. 9lb., and had 5st. 3lb. of lard taken out of it. On Tuesday week, at Jenken-Cross, in the parish of Westward, John LITTLE, servant of Richd. ROUTLEDGE, thrashed thirty bushels of Oats in eleven hours! The last ten stooks he thrashed in three minutes within an hour. On Thursday morning last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, some persons, after breaking the lamp before Mr. David RINKIN's house, in the market-place, Whitehaven, forced open his door and entered the dwelling unheard by the family, but nothing was taken away. The value of the goods in the house amounted to a considerable sum. All this was done unseen or unheard by the street watchman: he must have slept pretty soundly!