LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS.......Part I ROYAL WESTMORLAND MILITIA - LOUIS CARRUTHERS SALKELD, gent., to be sub-lieutenant. LORD LONSDALE won the “Nursery Handicap” at New market, on Thursday, with his horse “Beacon”. SIR WILFRID LAWSON and R. FERGUSONS, Esq., the members for Carlisle, are announced to address their constituents in County Hall, Carlisle, on Wednesday next. PRESENTATION – On Monday, the 12th instant, the members of the Longmarton Drum and Fife Band presented to MR. G. LEIGHTON, a handsome writing desk, in recognition of his valuable services as teacher of the band. ELECTION OF FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, Cambridge. Amongst the gentlemen elected on Saturday last, we notice MR. E. J. NANSON, second wrangler and second Smith’s (mathematical) Prizeman, 1873. MR. NANSON is son of MR. JOHN NANSON, of Beaconsfield, Penrith. SALE OF RAMS IN PENRITH – The annual sale of tups took place in Sandgate on Tuesday last. The exhibition so far as numbers re concerned was about an average, but the quality of the animals, with some few exceptions was very different; and very few sales took place. SALE OF AN ESTATE AT APPLEBY. – On Wednesday last, MR. JOHN JACKSON, of Penrith, sold by auction at the King’s Head Assembly Room, Appleby, the DRYEVERS estate, consisting of 134a 2r 32p. situate in the township of Maulds Meaburn. The buyer was MRS. ANN THWAITES of HolesFoot, and the price £3,820. MR. PUNCHARD, the agent of the Earl of Bective, was inn at £3,810. THE MAYO STATUE AT COCKERMOUTH. – The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Lord Mayo of Cockermouth, which it was expected would take place during the present week, has been postponed. MR. WILLIS, the sculptor, wrote to the committee stating that the statue would be ready for placing on the pedestal on the 15th inst., then he fixed the 17th inst. as the date, but a few days afterwards he informed the committee that it would be about the close of November before the statue was finished. INTERCESSIONS FOR MISSIONS. – The Bishop of Carlisle has notified to his clergy, by circular, that the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have agreed to recommend St. Andrew’s Day, November 30th, as a day of Intercession for Missions; and the Bishop requests each clergyman “To take such steps for the observance of the day in his parish as may seem to him to be most desirable”. He also suggests the “Missionary Students’ Fund” as an appropriate object to which the offertory on that day may be devoted. _______________________________________________________________ barb, ontario, canada.