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[Market-]place stands that excellently-conducted inn and
posting-house, the Crown and Mitre Hôtel and Coffee
House, better known by its latter name. Opposite the Bush
Inn, which is also well-known on the road as a superior
posting-house and hôtel, stands the News-room and
Library, built by private subscription, from the designs of
Mr. Rickman, who was also architect for the churches. The
County Gaol and Court-houses were designed by Smirke. One of
the circular towers forms the Nisi Prius Court; the other,
connected with the prison, the Crown Court. The prison is on
the radiated plan, the governor's house being in the centre,
and communicating by means of galleries with the different
wards. The Infirmary, near the canal, will repay the walk,
besides the fresh views of the town gained in this
direction. It is built on a very convenient plan, and has a
centre portico of four large Doric pillars, supporting a
pediment. The merits of its situation have been a subject of
much dispute; but what is still worse, owing to litigation
between the contractor and the building committee, although
finished in 1832, it was not opened for the reception of
patients until nine years thereafter.
The city of Carlisle has a police establishment, is lighted
with gas, and is under the municipal control of a
corporation, composed of mayor, aldermen, and common
councilmen. It returns two members to Parliament, and is now
the nomination place for the eastern division of the county.
It is a place of great manufacturing bustle,
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