Saturday 17 Oct 1818 (p. 2, col. 6 - p. 3, col. 1-2) On Thursday, Harbottle BURNETT was committed to Carlisle gaol, charged with stealing a great coat, and one cotton and one silk handkerchief, the property of William PATTINSON, of Corby. Enormous Potatoe.-There was brought to our office on Thursday, for the purpose of thus noticing it, a potatoe, which weighs four pounds, wanting one ounce. It grew at Crook-Dykes, near Rockliff, and belongs to Mr. John GIBBONS, Rickergate, Carlisle. This, to some, will seem incredible, but we can vouch for the fact. Emigration.-Matthew BOWERBANK, slater, of Penrith, with his wife and four children, returned to that town on the morning of yesterday week, from Liverpool, having visited America, (that land of "milk and honey," according to some of our journalists.) He gives a melancholy description of the country, &c. and is thankful that he has got home to his native town, where, he says, he will rest, and think no more of emigration. On Thursday se'nnight, John FLEMING of Alm-How, Patterdale, was drowned in Ulswater Lake, when getting out sand. His wife died only a short time ago, and he has left ten children unprovided for, the oldest of which is not 14 years of age. Saturday last, Margaret BOWMAN and Catherine BURNS, were committed to the House of Correction, Whitehaven, to take their trial at the ensuing Penrith Quarter Sessions, on a charge of having stolen one piece of printed cotton, from the shop of Mr. JACKSON, draper, in King-street, in that town. Mr. Alderman PEARSON is elected Mayor of Kendal for the year ensuing. Major GOLDIE is elected a Member of the House of Keys, Isle of Man, in the room of the Rev. William FITZSIMMONS, resigned. Last week, the Rev. T. THIMBLEBY, lately appointed Academical Professor for the Isle of Man, arrived at Castletown, and entered upon the duties of his office. On Monday se'nnight, James WILKINSON, aged 28, absconded from the Infirmary at Newcastle, leaving behind him a quantity of silk handkerchiefs and clasp knives, which he confessed to another patient he had stolen from a hawker at Carlisle. He had vainly endeavoured to prevail on one the nurses to pawn some of the goods for him.