The athletic sports were superior to anything ever exhibited in Carlisle. The wrestling commenced on Wednesday morning, at ten o'clock, in a roped ring, thirty-five yards in diameter. There were present on the occasion not less than five thousand spectators, who came from all parts within a circuit of thirty miles, to see these gymnastic exercises. This was probably the best wrestling ever seen in Cumberland, as each competitor had been the winner of a great number of belts in the respective parts they came from. Every round was most severely contested, but the last one was the finest struggle ever seen: each of the combatants having given the other the cast three or four times; and they respectively recovered in a most surprising manner, to the astonishment and admiration of every one present. At length Nicholson, who comes from Threlkeld, gave Harrison the knee, and gained the prize. * * * * * The following is a list of those men who wrestled for the Purse of Five Guineas, on the Swifts, on Wednesday, September 13th:-- FIRST ROUND. _Stood._ _Fell._ Robert Rowntree. Thomas Allison. Younghusband. John Rowntree. Joseph Dixon. John Thompson. Thomas Nicholson. Daniel Wilson. Goodfellow. John Waugh. John Watson. John Jorden. Matthew Armstrong. Moses Hodgson. Frank Moor. John Relph. Thomas Dickinson. Thomas Cowen. John Nicholson. Joseph Bird. John Dawson. William Douglas. Joseph Slack. Thomas Burrow. William Ritson. Matthew Dickinson. William Hodgson. James Phillip. John Harrison. John Hudless. Michael Hope. Romney. SECOND ROUND. Robert Rowntree. Younghusband. Thomas Nicholson. Joseph Dixon. John Watson. Goodfellow. Matthew Armstrong. Frank Moor. John Nicholson. Thomas Dickinson. Joseph Slack. John Dawson. William Ritson. William Hodgson. John Harrison. Michael Hope. THIRD ROUND. Thomas Nicholson. Robert Rowntree. John Watson. Matthew Armstrong. John Nicholson. Joseph Slack. John Harrison. William Ritson. FOURTH ROUND. _Stood._ _Fell._ Thomas Nicholson. John Watson. John Harrison. John Nicholson. FIFTH ROUND. Thomas Nicholson. John Harrison. Mr. HENRY PEARSON, _Head Manager_. Mr. CHRISTOPHERSON,) Mr. J. ARMSTRONG, ) _Clerks_. Mr. TOPPIN, _Umpire_.