NEWLANDS, a chapelry in that part of the parish of CROSTHWAITE which is in ALLERDALE ward above Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 5 miles (S.W. by "W.) from Keswick, containing 115 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and. diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £ 1200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Crosthwaite. The, chapel is situated near the small village of Little Town, which, lying under a mountain knot, does not receive, the rays of the sun from Martinmas to Candlemas. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A fair for sheep is held at Little Town on the first Fri- day in September. Rich copper-mines were formerly in .operation here, from which so much gold and silver was extracted as to entitle them to be considered, royal property; upon which a law suit was-instituted,, in the reign of Elizabeth, against the Earl of Northumberland, in whose lordship the mines were discover which terminated in favour of the crown, but since tae parliamentary war, in which the original works were destroyed, and most of the miners slain, they have been worked on a much smaller scale. The ruins of smeltinghouses and other buildings may still be traced on the banks of the Bure. Immense quantities -of lead-ore have also been raised in the neighbourhood, but the mines are now comparatively unproductive. A quarry of fine slate for roofing has lately been opened, and at Stairs there is a mill for carding wool.