Saturday 06 Feb 1819 (p. 2, col. 6 p. 3, col. 1) A meeting of the Subscribers to the House of Recovery was held, pursuant to notice, on Monday the 1st inst., at the Town Hall, to consider the propriety of adopting another situation for their House; the one they had originally pitched upon having been relinquished on account of the title. The situation proposed, was the Wash-house on the Damside, near Water Lane, now under a long lease to Dr. HEYSHAM from the Corporation.Dr. HEYSHAM, with great liberality, offered to assign the residue of his term in the property (upwards of 30 years), at the same rent which his present tenants hold under himonly £12 per annum. This proposition was accepted by the Committee; and the Corporation have since agreed to prolong the term for another 20 years, at the same rate. The Rev. Robert MARKHAM observed at the meeting, that some objections had been thrown out in a newspaper printed in this town, which might perhaps have been as well spared: he had, in consequence of those objections, been to examine the place, and had only just returned; he was himself quite convinced that the situation was most eligible, and that instead of the establishment of a Fever House there being the cause any nuisance, it would, in point of fact, prevent a nuisance; for he had seen a woman actually washing clothes in the very place, where, when the House is established, no such thing will be permitted. Mr. MARKHAM suggested, that to avoid even the appearance of fouling the water, a pipe might be laid from the House through or under the Dam, by which the foul water, from the water-closets and other places, might be carried into a drain which he had observed, and by which it might be completely taken away, without prejudice to any one. After a little discussion, in which all the medical men present declared their opinion that there was not any objection whatever to the place on account of its situation, but that, on the contrary, it was a highly desirable one, it was unanimously resolved, that the Committee be authorised to take the situation at the Damside, the property of Dr. HEYSHAM, and generally have full power to put into immediate execution the object of the institution. The Annual Meeting of the Subscribers to the Carlisle Dispensary took place on Tuesday last, at the Town Hall, which, we regret to state, was by no means so numerously attended as was expected. The Treasurer laid before the meeting an abstract of the state of the funds of the Institution, by which it appeared that upwards of one hundred pounds were expended during the last year above the amount of the annual subscriptions, thereby reducing the surplus fund very considerably. The Treasurer also read a very interesting Report from the gentlemen of the medical department, a copy of which we have inserted for the perusal of our readers. The observations made in the Report, with regard to cleanliness, &c., to prevent the increase of contagion, are of great importance, and deserve the attention of all ranks of society, particularly at a time when cases of typhus fever yet remain in this city and neighbourhood. The meeting unanimously voted thanks to Dr. BARNES, the physician in ordinary, to the Medical and Quarterly Committees, and to Mr. WALDIE, secretary and treasurer, for the services they have rendered the Dispensary during the last year. A Resolution was. also passed, requesting the gentlemen composing the Quarterly Committee for the present year, to use their best endeavours to augment the annual subscriptions by soliciting support from those ladies and gentlemen in this city and neighbourhood, who are not subscribers. We cannot for a moment entertain a doubt but a great addition will be made to the funds of this very excellent charity in the course of the year. Such a charity as this should always be provided with ample means to benefit those who, by sickness, are rendered incapable of being useful to themselves or to their families. We have only to add, that it appears, from the state of the registers, that upwards of two thousand four hundred persons have been admitted to the benefit of this charity, from February 1818, to February 1819, being upwards of seven hundred more than were registered in 1817, and above thirteen hundred more than in 1816. The Carlisle Canal Bill was brought in in the House of Commons, on Monday last, and was read the first time. On Sunday last, William IRVING, of Wigton, shopkeeper, put a period to his existence by hanging himself. The deceased had been at Carlisle on the Saturday preceding, for the purpose of receiving some money, in which he was disappointed; and, as is supposed, being about to make a payment, it preyed so strongly upon his mind as to cause insanity. His wife was invited to tea at a neighbour's house, which she wished to decline, but he pressed her to go;as soon as she was gone, he sent the children out of the house, went up stairs, and committed the fatal deed.He has left six small children. On Sunday last, in the afternoon, Mr. Henry ARMSTRONG, farmer, of Dovenby, left his house apparently in a sane state of mind, saying that he was going to see a friend, who was unwell. Not returning home that night, his four sons went in search of him the next morning, when they found him hanging by the neck in a plantation, quite dead, with an handkerchief tied over his head and eyes. The unhappy man was 64 years of age, and was very much respected. At Dublin, yesterday week, as Edward CLARK, seaman, of Ginns, was hanging up his clothes to dry in the rigging of the Robert, of Whitehaven, he fell, and was so hurt that he expired in an hour, leaving a wife and five small children to lament his death. Mr. A. BIRD, of the Nook of Hayton, has a pear-tree in his orchard, which for the last fifty years has produced three crops of pears each year, without being grafted. A petition will be presented to the House of Commons against the election of John GLADSTONE and Gabriel DOVETON, Esquires, who were returned for the Borough of Lancaster.Kendal Chronicle.