Saturday 28 Nov 1818 (p. 2, col. 6 - p. 3, col. 1) COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. 23.-The King v. BLAYLOCK.-It will be in the recollection of our readers that BLAYLOCK was found guilty at the last Carlisle Assizes of committing a most violent and aggravated assault on three Excise Officers, at the Luckens, in the parish of Stapleton, in this county. The prisoner was this day brought up to receive judgment. He put in a Petition to the Court, which was read: it stated chiefly, that he had been in prison 11 months, and was reduced to great distress; and though found in the place where there was an illegal still, he was entirely innocent of the distillery and the assault on the officers. Mr. TOPPING, for the Crown, stated, that one of the Excise Officers had been disabled for life. The Court, taking the previous confinement into consideration, sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment. As it is intended to apply for an Act, in the next Session of Parliament, for improving this City, a Correspondent suggests, that a clause should be inserted to limit the hours of keeping open Public-houses. In many towns none are permitted to be open after ten o'clock on week days, and eight o'clock on Sundays. There are at present upwards of 100 Ale houses and Gin shops in this City, or nearly one to every ten inhabitants. On Monday night last, the shop of Henry ROGAN, dealer in groceries, &c. on Caldewbrow, was broken open by forcing the door, and robbed of money, tea, flour, and other articles, to a considerable amount. This depredation is supposed to have been committed by some one acquainted with the shop, as the canister of common tea was rejected, and that containing the best, cleared of its contents. Mourning on account of the demise of her Majesty is very general in this City. The pulpits and reading desks of the Churches are clad in black. On Sunday last, a hare was killed in Backhouse's Walk, by a man who threw a stone at it from the top of the West Wall of the City. Another man who saw it fall, ran and picked it up, but the person who threw the stone laid claim to the prize, and a quarrel ensued. This brought the constables to the spot (who were on the look-out, it being church time), and they settled the dispute by bearing off the bone of contention. Poor puss, it seems, had been tempted into the gardens by the vegetables. Thus, like many other animals without prudence, she sacrificed her life at the shrine of luxury! A woman stole a basket of butter in our market on Saturday last: but the property having been recovered, she was not detained. The Earl of Carlisle is said to be dangerously ill. We regret that we have this week to announce the sudden death of Col. BRADDYLL, at Skipton, while on a journey to the South. The particulars will be found in our Obituary. A New Methodist Chapel will be opened at Whitehaven, on Sunday next. John BOLTON, Esq. of Storrs Hall, banks of Windermere, gave an elegant entertainment last week to a large party of gentlemen, friends to the principles which returned to their seats in Parliament the present members for the County of Westmorland. The melancholy account of the death of the Queen reached Workington on Thursday evening se'nnight, whilst the respectable inhabitants of the town were enjoying the recreation of dancing at the Card Assembly. The amusements of the evening were immediately put an end to. A cock, belonging to Mr. James FLEMING, jun. of Town-End, Grasmere, has in three consecutive moultings exhibited a pantomimic succession of different colours: after the first moulting, he became black; after the second, red; and at present, after the third, he is pure white. The bodies of the two brothers (YOUNGHUSBAND), whose suicide at Alnwick, we detailed in our last, were put into coffins and buried in a foot-path within the church-yard of Alnwick. This not being considered a sufficient compliance with the terms of the statute, order was given by the Magistrates to the Churchwardens, that the sentence of the law should be strictly carried into execution. The bodies were accordingly taken up the next day, and buried in a highway, not far from the spot where they committed the fatal act. By the verdict of felo de se, the whole of their property, which is considerable, is forfeited to the Crown. John, the eldest, was 70 years of age, and unmarried; Lancelot was 65 years old, and has left a widow and daughter to bewail his dreadful end. On Saturday night se'nnight, the house of Mr. JOHNSON, of Lower Stock-bridge, near Bentham, Westmorland, was broke into and robbed of a variety of articles. The robbers had stopped in the house a considerable time, having ate provisions and drank a quantity of rum. They had stolen a loaded gun, and left razors open. It is supposed that they intended to murder Mr. JOHNSON if he had disturbed them. Suspicion falling on two lodgers at John WALLER's, in that neighbourhood, a search-warrant was obtained, and WALLER was so intimidated that he has confessed being an accomplice, and is now a prisoner in Kirkby Lonsdale. He has confessed many other robberies. Some weaving shops were broken into on Monday evening, and linen webs stolen, and the two men were gone to dispose of the articles. Constables are in full pursuit. They had twice attempted Mr. JOHNSON's house before. On the 13th instant, the infant daughter of Mr. POSTLETHWAITE, butcher, of Kirkby, near Ulverston, met with a premature and lamentable end, by falling into a bason of boiling water, during the momentary absence of her parents: She lingered two days in great agony, and then expired.