The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE COCKERMOUTH AND
WORKINGTON.

This line, 81/2 miles long, and which runs through one
of the most picturesque portions of the county, was opened
on Tuesday.
At Cockermouth the opening was celebrated as an event
of extraordinary i riportance. Business was suspended,
bands of music paraded the town, flags were hoisted, ant'
there were all the usual demonstrations of satisfaction and
delight. About ninety gentlemen sat down to dinner at the
Globe Inn.

The Cockermouth and Workington Railway Company was
formed on the 23d of December, 1844, and the Act for the
formation of the line was passed in the following year. The
capital authorised to be raised in shares was 80,0001., kith
power to borrow 26,0001.

The spirited borough of Cockermouth wanted but a rail-
way to place it upon a par, in respect of civilisation, with its
more precocious neighbours on the coast—Workington and
Maryport. Hitherto it has been shut out from all communi-
cation with the rest of the world beyond that afforded by the -
old-fashioned, lumbering, melancholy, slow methods of
transit upon which an extinguisher was put on Tuesday last,
by the opening of a railway to Workington. Now all manner
of merchandise will be conveyed' to their places of destina-
tion mith speed and economy ; and, ere long. it will be
opol-
sible for the worthy burghers to realise what wansrsi
en:. cons,.
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to letters of business. The importance of this improvement
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accelerated. The regularity with which
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some
nearer to Cockerinothan is
the journey has been_ performed, has induced
experiments, and it is found that the whole distance between
Southampton and
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DEATH or LORD LURGAN:—wVith unaffected
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of an attack of typhus fever—took place yesterday (Friday)
morning, at Lurgan Castle. The deceased nobleman has
ever been one of the most deservedly estemed resident laud-
lords iu Ulster. We speak the sentiments of all wi,o knew
him, or knew of his worth, when we say that Lord Lurgan's
death will be felt as a public calamity. His Lordsi ::) w.s in ;
his fifty-second year, haying been born in 1795. 110 was
created a peer by the Whig Administration of th., y, in .
1839, and was a Privy Ccuncillor and Deputy- Licht,: of
the county of Armagh. He is succeeded in his id!c_and
estates by his eldest eon, the Hen. Charles Brow►il r,
in his seventeenth year.—Neicry Telegraph. •
TUE ItECORDERSHIP OF WINCRESTR,R.—in the
room of Mr. William Burge, late recorder of this city, Mr.
Stock, of the Western Circuit, has been appointed. The
sessions, which were adjourned on the sth of April wail tho
19th of the same month, were again adjourned in consequence
of there being no recorder appointed. Within the last few
days, however, the appointment of Mr. Stock has been ratified,
and the fact was made known on Saturday to the citizens
that the sessional trials would take place this day (Monday).
It has been a matter of general surprise amongst the citizens
that a new recorder was not earlier appointed, as the pri-
soners, of whom there are several awaiting their trials, have
beerf kept in prison nearly a month longer than they ether-
wise would have been, had their cases been brought on at •
the usual time.