Saturday 27 Feb 1819 (p. 3, col. 1-2) We are happy to learn, that it is intended to send down to the four Northern Counties this Spring, a Sergeant-at-Law, with a Commission for a general gaol delivery, but no Civil Cases will be tried: and previous to the following Lent, such arrangements will be completed as will confer the benefit of regular Assizes twice a year on the Northern Counties, in common with the other Circuits. The means of accommodation afforded by our gaol, render a quick delivery especially desirable. Measures are in train for the erection of a new Church in Caldewgate. On Wednesday morning, we had a considerable fall of snow in this neighbourhood, the first of any consequence for the winter. We are sorry to state, that several of the Cotton Manufacturers of this City, have been obliged, by the paucity of demand in the market, to discharge a number of their weavers, and to abridge the labour of those whom they retain in employment. We hope that the cause of this painful, but, on the part of the manufacturers, necessary procedure, will meet with a speedy removal. On the night of yesterday week, a sheep, killed and dressed, was stolen from the Butcher Market, in this City, the property of Mr. ROBINSON: it had been placed there to be in readiness for the market on the following morning. The typhus fever prevails at Whitehaven very much at this time, particularly among the lower class of people; the cases of many families are truly distressing. It is surprising that a House of Recovery is not adopted in that town: great benefit would result from it. There are now 40 students at St. Bees School, under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. AINGER. The inhabitants of the village say, that they derive considerable benefit from their presence, and that their conduct is of the most exemplary nature, reflecting no less credit on their worthy teacher than on themselves. On Sunday morning last, the tan-yard of Messrs. Charles NORMAN, & Co., of Parton, near Whitehaven, was broken into, and a quantity of Morrocco skins were taken away. It is supposed that this depredation was committed by a strange man and woman, as there was a white stocking left near the place, and two such persons were at the Black Cock public house that morning, the man having only one stocking on, which was white: they proceeded on the road leading to Kendal. On the 14th inst., at Keswick, as two boys about 10 years of age were on their return from watering two of Mr. John GRAVE's horses, a boy standing on the battlement of the bridge struck the foremost horse, which had the effect of frightening the hindmost animal, and occasioning its falling over the ledging of the bridge upon the sand below, a height of ten feet: the horse was much hurt, and died in half an hour, but the boy miraculously escaped unhurt. Yesterday week, Mr. Thomas ELLIS, a young man, (son of the late Mr. ELLIS, tide-surveyor) was drowned at Whitehaven: he had been fishing on the New Quay. A robbery and burglary were committed in Kendal last week.—Sarah THOMPSON, who resides in French Lane, returned by the coach from Whitehaven, near which place she had been to receive a legacy of £270. On her arrival in Kendal, she called at the house of a neighbour, who, considering the impropriety of so large a sum of money remaining in the possession of a solitary female, strongly pressed her to remain at his house all night: she, however, refused to accept the invitation, and went home about 12 o'clock. About four in the morning she was alarmed by two men who entered her room: one of them immediately seized and covered her with the bed clothes, to prevent her making an alarm, whilst the other searched every part of the house, and was fortunate enough to discover the treasure which had only experienced a slight diminution by travelling expences. The entrance had been effected by means of a key. A man of the name of William SHERWOOD has been lodged in Appleby gaol, charged with uttering counterfeit coin. Some doubts, we understand, are entertained of the propriety of committing the prisoner for trial, owing to the prosecutors having subsequently restored the counterfeit shilling in exchange for a good one. M'VEY, the servant who robbed Mr. PARKINS, has been again put to the bar at the Old Bailey, and is capitally convicted. As John SMITH and John WORKMAN were lately draining upon Shap Beck Tenement, near Thrimby, they discovered two human skeletons, about two feet below the surface of the earth. SMITH found one about two years ago near the same place. Extraordinary Pig.—Last week, was slaughtered at Kirkby Lonsdale, a Shropshire pig, fed by Mr. John LODGE, tallow-chandler, of extraordinary weight and dimensions. It measured in length from the snout to the root of the tail seven feet; its girth was seven feet eight inches; its weight including the reidings, 65st. 5lbs. (14lbs. to the stone); and was sold for £23. York.—A short time ago, a coroner's jury was summoned to sit on the body of a boy, who had fallen from a scaffolding in Selby, and was reported to have died of his wounds. In order that the cause of the lad's death might be clearly ascertained, a surgeon was dispatched to examine the body, who, on his return to the coroner, reported, that either from the galvanic process, or from some other cause, the deceased was, at the time he entered the room, performing the operation of eating a lunch of bread and butter! In plain English, that he was already convalescent, and would soon be in as good health as any member of the jury. We are sorry to state, that so great is the mortality at present in this town, from the prevailing fever, and other causes, that no less than 70 funerals have taken place since the commencement of the present year—a number truly alarming and unprecedented.—Dumfries Journal. On the evening of Wednesday se'nnight while Mr. WALLACE farmer at Howliggate, was on his way home from Dumfries, where he had been attending the fair, he was attacked by three men, a little beyond Casseylands toll bar, one of whom presented a pistol at him, while the other two seized and robbed him of £11. Last week, a couple presented themselves to be married at Leeds Parish Church; but as the ring was about to be placed upon the finger of the bride, a young woman rushed into the church and claimed the bridegroom as her husband. She said they had been married four years back at that very altar, and searching the register the names were found. The man and his disappointed companion were admonished and dismissed.