THE COLLIERY READING ROOM AND LIBRARY, Ginns, - for the free use of Lord LONSDALE's employees only, open from 9 a.m. to 10 p. m.; on Saturdays, a hour later.
NEWSPAPER OFFICES. - The Cumberland Pacquet, price 3d. Unstamped, is published every Tuesday, by Robert FOSTER, at No. 26, King Street. It advocates Conservative and Tory principles, and is the oldest paper in the county, having been established in 1774.
THE WHITEHAVEN HERALD. , price 2 ½ d. unstamped, is published every (Friday evening for) Saturday, at No. 13 Lowther Street, by William SMITH, and is in favour of the Whig Party.
THE WHITEHAVEN TIMES is published every Thursday, at 40 New Street, by Robert BANKS, of Quality Corner.
THE WHITEHAVEN NEWS is published every Tuesday and Thursday, by Michael and William ALSOP, at 43 Roper Street. These last two are penny papers.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. - The Whitehaven and West Cumberland Infirmary is a large stone building in Howgill Street, and is supported by public subscriptions. An additional wing was added to it some time ago, at the expense of the Baroness de STERNBERG, of Acrewalls. President: The Right Hon. Earl of LONSDALE. Treasurer: Peter CAMERON, Esq. Secretary: Mr. Wm. WILSON. House Surgeon: Mr. J. G. WHITHEAD. Surgeon Dentist: Mr. Richard DUNCAN. Matron: Mrs. HOLLIDAY. Chaplain: Rev. Canon DALTON.
PIPER'S MARINE SCHOOL. - The following particulars of this charity were taken from "An Appeal to the Public" in the Whitehaven Herald of April 30, 1864: -
One of the most active and beneficent charities in Whitehaven is the school in High Street, built by the late Earl of LONSDALE on a piece of ground granted by his Lordship for that purpose, and endowed with £2000, invested originally in the Navy 5 per cent. Bank Annuities, by the late Mr. Matthew PIPER, for education of 60 poor boys.
The ground, school-house, and stock, along with another investment of £1000 in the same stock for the provision and distribution of soup amongst the poor, were conveyed to Trustees, in whom the management of the school, subject to certain rules, was vested. The deeds prescribe that the school £2000 and the soup £1000 shall be invested in the names of four of the Trustees, and that when these should be reduced by death to two, the survivors should transfer the stock to themselves, and such to others of the Trustees, for the time being, as majority should appoint.