Saturday 30 Jan 1819 (p. 3, col. 1-2) On Tuesday last, the petition for a Canal between Carlisle and the sea, was presented to the House of Commons, and referred to a committee. Yesterday was appointed for the Committee's first sitting. Our readers will perceive, by an advertisement in this day's paper, that the Annual Meeting of the Subscribers to the Dispensary will place on Tuesday next, at the Town Hall. We should hope that every Subscriber who feels interested in the welfare of this excellent charitable institution, will conceive it to be his duty to attend the Anniversary Meeting, as a numerous and respectable attendance of the subscribers on the above occasion will prove that there exists, on their part, a desire to promote the designs of the Dispensary; and it will be gratifying to the gentlemen who gratuitously give their assistance, to find that their endeavours to promote the views of the subscribers have succeeded. From the great increase of patients during the last two years the funds of the Dispensary have been considerably reduced: it is hoped, therefore, that many gentlemen will attend the meeting who are not subscribers, to support this valuable institution. The birth-day of the pride of Scotland, Robert BURNS, on Monday last, was celebrated at the King's Arms Inn, in this city, by a party of gentlemen, who dined together, and spent the afternoon very pleasantly. Mr. HOLMES's dinner and wines, as usual, gave general satisfaction. Committed to Carlisle gaol.—Christopher GALE, committed by John CHRISTIAN, Esq. charged with having stolen two bills of exchange, one for £100, and the other for £50, from the mail from Cockermouth to Maryport, he being employed to carry the said mail.—Thomas YOUDALE, committed by J. D. B. DYKES, Esq. charged with having privately stolen two silver watches from the shop of Mary SIMPSON, of Cockermouth, on Tuesday the 26th inst. On Tuesday morning, as a farmer of one of Mr. FORSTER's estates, (of Newtown,) in Nichol Forest, was on his way to Carlisle for the purpose of paying his rent, he was stopped, at no great distance from his own house, by a man, who robbed him of his pocket-book containing a considerable sum; and personally ill-used him. The robber certainly must have had some information of the farmer's business. On Saturday last, was convicted before the Mayor of this City, in the mitigated penalty of 5s. each, two colliers from Brampton for placing coals upon the foot-path near the Cathedral. Whitehaven, Jan. 28.—On Sunday, about twelve o'clock, as the tide was going out, two men discovered the body of a woman in the harbour of Parton, near this town, and it was conveyed to a place formerly used as a smith's shop; but no one there could tell who she was. About six in the evening, two men, near relations of the deceased, came to see the body, and said she was a stranger, and went away. Sometime during the night, the body was taken to Whitehaven, by some friends, as is supposed: she proves to be Miss Jane FARISH, of Lowther-street, in this town. She left home about half-past four on Saturday. Neither of the two men who found her was summoned before the coroner's jury.—Verdict, found drowned. COURSING.—The second coursing match at Annan took place on Tuesday last, upon the estate of the Marquis of Queensberry. The matches made at a former meeting, had excited considerable interest among the sporting characters on both sides the Sark, and a larger concourse of people was never, perhaps, assembled on a similar occasion—the sport was admirable: 22 hares were killed by three o'clock. On summing up the courses run between the Cumberland and Scotch dogs, they stand 17 to 4; leaving the large majority of 13 in favour of England. After the sports had concluded, upwards of thirty gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner at the Queensberry Arms Inn. Among the toasts, was the health of the Marquis of Queensberry, which was drank with true sportsman like warmth: this was followed by "the health of his amiable consort and family, and may she soon be the mother of an heir to the house of Glen-Stuart:" it is needless to say that this was pledged with equal spirit. The principal gentry resident on the borders were in the field.— MATCHES. 1. Mr. J. ELLIOT's Buff, beat Mr. LOWTHER's Fleet. 2. Capt. WILKINSON's Fly, beat Mr. LOWTHER's Fly. 3. Mr. HENDERSON's Spanker, beat Gen. DIROM's bitch. 4. Mr. ELLIOT's Buff, beat Mr. LOWTHER's Fleet,—2nd course. 5. Mr. R. NORMAN's Lemon, beat Mr. ROBINSON's cream dog. 6. Mr. EWART's Glent, beat Mr. BENSON's Swallow. Capt. WILKINSON's Fly, and Mr. LOWTHER's Fly,—2nd course,—could not be determined. 7. Mr. EWART's Glent, beat Mr. ROBINSON's cream dog. 8. Mr. HODGSON's dog, beat Mr. IVISON's. Mr. RAE's bitch, and Mr. NORMAN's black dog Nero, 1st course,—not determined. Gen. DIROM's bitch, and Mr. HENDERSON's Spanker,—2nd course,—not determined. 9. Mr. NORMAN's Lemon, beat the Blaikshaw Hero. 10. Mr. HENDERSON's Spanker, beat Gen. DIROM's bitch, 3rd course. 11. Mr. NORMAN's Lemon, beat Mr. BIRNEY's bitch. 12. Mr. HENRY's Brandy, beat Mr. JOHNSTON's bl. [?] bitch. 13. Mr. HENDERSON's Lady, beat Mr. BENSON's Swallow, 2nd course. 14. Mr. NORMAN's bitch Lemon, beat Mr. LOWTHER's black bitch. 15. Mr. HENRY's Brandy, beat Capt. GILLET's black dog. 16. Mr. WARWICK's Rake, beat Mr. HIRST's white dog. 17. Mr. HENRY's Brandy, beat Col. DOUGLAS's bitch. Won by the Scotch Dogs. 1. Mr. BENSON's Jock, beat Mr. HENRY's Driver. 2. Mr. RAE's bitch, beat Mr. WARWICK's Rake. 3. Ditto, ditto, beat Mr. NORMAN's Nero. 4. Mr. BENSON's Swallow, beat Mr. HENDERSON's Lady, 1st course. It was finally determined at a meeting of the friends of Mr. STANIFORTH, held at Hull yesterday se'nnight, to give up, under present circumstances, the proposed petition to parliament in favour of that gentleman, and against the return of J. R. G. GRAHAM, Esq. who will consequently retain his seat unmolested for that town. Accident.—On the 15th instant, a melancholy accident occurred on the highway near the village of Eaglesfield, about three miles from Cockermouth.—Andrew BEWSHER, a respectable farmer, of Wright Green, parish of Dean, was travelling along the road, with three horses and three carts, laden with wheat, which he had sold to a neighbouring miller, and to whom he was then conveying it. One of the horses, being young, and not much accustomed to the cart, made a small deviation from the road, and one of the cart wheels passed over some large stones lying under the adjoining hedge. BEWSHER, actuated by the impulse of the moment, imprudently laid hold of the cart, with the view of preventing its being overturned. His exertions, however, proved ineffectual, and the cart fell upon him with great force, by which the muscular part of one of his legs was lacerated, and he was otherwise much injured. Notwithstanding medical assistance was immediately procured, he expired in a few hours, leaving a wife and either nine or ten children. Three men are now travelling about the north of England, for the purpose of passing forged Bank of England notes: they lately worked on the canal near Kendal. One of them, John M'MEAKIN, is about 27 years of age, 5 ft. 8 inches in height, and of a pale complexion; another, Con CARLE, is about the same age and height; with fair complexion and light hair; and the third, Moses M'MEAKIN, aged about 30, has a dark complexion, black hair, and stammers much in his speech. Extract of a Letter from Cambridge, Jan. 25. "The number of Gentlemen who have this year, taken their degree of B. A. is upwards of 150, which 56 have taken honours. The Senior Wrangler, Mr. KING, is a native of Lowic-Bridge, in Lancashire. He has been educated at Queen's Col., the tutors of which, Mr. BARNES and Mr. MANDELL, were both from the neighbourhood of Wigton, and the president is Dr. MILNER, Dean of Carlisle. The Moderator in his speech to the Senate on Saturday last, when the degrees were conferred, said of Mr. KING, "that there was not a corner in Mathematical Science which he had left unexplored, and that he had no hesitation in pronouncing him INCOMPARABILEM."