| 6 OCTOBER 1837, Friday NEWS - Explanatory Notice Respecting the Registration and Marriage Acts LOCAL NEWS ALGAVE Americana - We understand that the fine specimen of this magnificent exotic, in the ladies flower garden at Clowance, the seat of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., is now in a state of blossoming, and upwards of 1,000 of the flowers are expanded; and so richly are these blossoms supplied with honey that it actually drops from the [crow]n. From the vast number of flower buds, there is no doubt but this most curious and interesting flower will continue to bloom for the space of five or six weeks. No less than 1360 persons have already seen and admired this most beautiful plant, and we have every reason to believe many hundreds more will be added to the number. - [Earlier articles, starting about 6 weeks ago, stated that the flowering had been delayed. The flower stalk rose over 25 feet high, and a viewing platform had been constructed from which visitors could get a good view of the flowers. Days and times the garden would be open for visitors were given. Evidently, many people took advantage of the opportunity.] Singular Haul of Fish - On Monday last, the harbour at Falmouth, which was very tranquil, showed many indications of containing large quantities of fish, and some fishermen were, in consequence, induced to shoot a sean, expecting they should have a catch of herring. On drawing in the sean, however, it was found to contain a variety of the finny tribes, consisting of the anchovy, sprat, mackarel, pilchard, herring, mullet, &c,&c. The harbour continued to present the same appearances for some time, and considerable numbers of fish were caught; but the mackarel, which were the most numerous, were so small as to be unfit for sale, being only about the size of small pilchards. Destructive Fire - On Friday last, a fire broke out in the house of Samuel Argall, of St. Agnes, which communicated to the two houses adjoining, and completely destroyed the whole three. Argall's house was not insured, but the other two were, and their loss will to the extent of the insurance be made good. The furniture was considerably injured by the haste with which it was removed, but we are happy to state that no lives were lost. Camelford - On Monday last, James Robinson, Esq., was elected Mayor of this place. Merit rewarded - The French Government has presented Mr. Buckett, Searcher and Landing Waiter of the Customs, Falmouth, with a gold medal, in acknowledgment of his meritorious services in rendering assistance to certain French vessels, wrecked in 1830, at Port Holland beach, within that port.� The medal is very handsome.� On one side of it is a head of King Louis Philippe, beautifully executed; on the reverse is the following inscription: - "A. Buckett, Nicholas Martin, officer Des Douanes D'Angleterce - Courage et Devouement Pour Secourir Les Equipages De Navires Francois Saufrages 1830."�The Lords of the Treasury, in transmitting the medal to the Board of Customs, express their satisfaction that the conduct of Mr. Buckett on the occasion was such as to produce this mark of approbation; and the Board of Customs in forwarding the same to Falmouth with a copy of the Treasury Letter, are also pleased to express their satisfaction.� Mr. B., (we believe), received some time ago the thanks of the Russian Government for [his] meritorious and successful exertions in the case of the Russian brig St. Nicholas, which vessel was wrecked at Port Holland beach at the same time as the French vessels before alluded to.� It is but right to observe that the services rendered on this occasion were no doubt prompted by zeal for the benefit of the Customs Revenue, [th]ey will probably not be lost sight of by the heads of [that] department.� Mr. Jonathan Bolt and Mr. Reginald [Ba]rrett, officers of the Coast Guard, have also received [fro]m the French Government, silver medals, for their meritorious exertions on the occasion of the loss of the vessels above mentioned. Truro Town Council [from a copy of the minutes] The Mayor having announced the resignation of the office of Town Clerk by Mr. Hosken James - Resolved, that Dr. Carlyon and Mr. Baynard be requested to wait on Mr. James, and to urge him to reconsider his determination. The deputation having reported that they had seen Mr. James, and that he had fully made up his mind on the subject, Resolved, - that his resignation be accepted. Resolved unanimously - that we cannot allow Mr. James to retire from a situation which he has filled with so much credit to himself, and advantage to the corporation, without returning him our best thanks for the integrity, ability, and independence, with which he has performed the duties of his important office. Resolved - that the above resolutions be entered into the minute book of the council, and that a copy of the same be transmitted to Mr. James by the Mayor. Mr. Turner moved that Mr. G. N. Simmons be appointed to succeed Mr. James, in the office of Town Clerk. Seconded by Dr. Carlyon. Mr. Chappal moved that Mr. Bennallack be appointed to succeed Mr. James, in the office of Town Clerk. Seconded by Mr. Tippet. Mr. Hodge moved, by way of amendment, that the selection of Town Clerk be postponed to Tuesday, the 17th instant. Seconded by Mr. Treloar. Amendment carried. Petty Sessions - A Petty Sessions for one of the divisions of the hundred of Powder, was held yesterday, at the Town Hall, Truro, before Edmund Turner, Esq., M. P., and Capt. Reynolds. John LETCHER was summaned[sic] for 15s.2d due for way-rates to the parish of St. Agnes. Ordered to be paid. William REED was charged by his brother, Robert Reed, with having committed an assault upon him. Case dismissed. William CHENOWETH was summoned for �2.14s.8d due for the support of an illegitimate child, to the parish of St. Agnes. Ordered to be paid. Nicholas DADDO was summoned by the same parish for �8.12s.4d due for a similar object. Committed for three months. Abraham DELBRIDGE was summoned for �2.8s.0d due for wages to Thomas CAVEL. Order for payment made out. Elizabeth KEAST was charged with committing an assault upon Thomasine TIPPET, of Perranzabuloe; case dismissed. William EVA, of Camborne, was charged by Thomas NICHOLL, of Redruth, with riding without reins; the bench fined him �2.9s., and 11s.6d in costs. John TREGOWETH, agent to the Tresavean Mining Company, was summoned for 43s.6d by Thomas COCK; case dismissed. Joseph PAMBLYN was charged with committing an assault on Elizabeth OLVER, of Perranzabuloe; fined �1 or one month's imprisonment. He was also charged with committing an assault upon John PLANT, and was fined �1.1s, including costs, or another month's imprisonment. [as written - surnames are very clearly spelled jm] 13 OCTOBER 1837, Friday NEWS - Queen's Entry into Brighton - Agricultural Report for September - Importation of Copper - Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Meeting England Under Lord Melbourne LOCAL NEWS Petty Sessions - On Monday last, a petty sessions for the borough of Truro, was held before G. Simmons, jun. Esq., mayor, and R. Taunton, Esq., M.D., when a discharged pensioner, named William PENHALL, was charged with stealing two shawls, the property of Ann ROUNCEVAL, a servant in the employ of Mr. John COE, of the Golden Lion, Truro. It appeared that the shawls had been taken out of the girl's bedroom. The prisoner was also charged with stealing a Valencia waistcoat, the property of Richard MAY, an ostler and brewer to Mr. COE. The prisoner stole the articles on the previous Friday, and sold them on Saturday. On Sunday morning, he went to Richard BARTLETT, the keeper of the borough prison, and asked him "to put him in prison, for he had robbed an honest man". The prisoner still said he was guilty, and was committed to Bodmin Sessions for trial. Ann PASCOE and Mary PAYNE, two prostitutes, were charged by Benjamin BAWDEN, a constable, with being riotous and disorderly in the High Cross, on Saturday evening last, between eleven and twelve o'clock. The mayor severely reprimanded them, and sentenced PASCOE to one month, and PAYNE to three weeks' hard labour in the house of correction. Isles of Scilly - The late gales have been very unpropitious to the inhabitants of these islands, having brought in but few vessels, (owing to some new regulations respecting pilots and hovellers, very injurious to the latter) and also having prevented the Islanders from laying in their winter stock of fish - an article when has long been very scarce here. East Cornwall Registration - St. Austell. The Conservatives make a show of exultation at the result of the proceedings before the revising Barristers, the Reformers having sustained only 18 objections out of 133, whilst their wary opponents sustained 41 out of a considerably less number. [following was a call for a more-organized effort by the Reformers jm]. Camelford - On Wednesday, the 4th instant, the Revising Barristers held their court in the Guildhall, Camelford. … notwithstanding the chicanery and grimaces of the Tories, [Reformers] succeeded in expunging a great many names from the several lists. Eight fictitious voters were struck off from the list for the Parish of Endellion - objected to by that influential and staunch Reformer, Mr. Mark Guy - which the Reverend William Hocking, of that Parish, had caused to be placed on the list without having the slightest pretensions for sending in their claims, but merely because they cheered and supported him in his "sacred duty" of placing the conservative flag on the top of the steeple belonging to the parish church, after the return of Lord Elliot for this division. Diocesan Church Building Society Meeting ..In a letter from Mr. Hockin, of Phillack, the church accommodation was in the ratio of about one-tenth of the whole population. In a letter from Mr. Buller, of St. Just, it appeared that there is room for 550 persons [in the Church of England building jm], while the census of 1831 showed 4,667 persons, since which time there had been a great influx of miners, and the population had very considerably increased. ...[Mr. Medley suggested jm] the building of [C.of E. jm] chapels... The Wesleyan Methodists had acted largely on that plan in St. Austell, where there was only one church holding 1,850 persons, and there were twenty-six Wesleyan chapels. [The Clergy jm] held it was a sin to dissent from the Church, yet it gave [people jm] no means of coming to their church. The man would tell them [the clergy jm] that he could go to the Methodist chapel and take his family there, while he could obtain no room for them at the church. ...where opportunities were given to the people to come to church, the churches were filled; and so they would find that the more they multiplied church room and church accommodation the more they would bring back to the church. With regard to the small attendance on this occasion, he [Mr. Medley jm] could not account for it, having taken every pains possible to draw people's attention to the subject by means of hand bills, notices in the papers, notices in the church, and by sending out bills to the different houses in the neighbourhood. He supposed that they must impute it in part to that indifference which had hitherto been existing in the church upon this subject. Bankrupts - J. Llewellyn, draper, Carmarthen 20 OCTOBER 1837, Friday NEWS - Royal Geological Society of Cornwall - Petiton by the Electors of the Eastern Division to Parliament LOCAL NEWS Ludgvan Fair - This fair, which was commenced about five years ago, by the exertion and interest of Mr. Wm. Hutchens, has been annually increasing in supplies of cattle; and on Tuesday, the 10th instant, it greatly exceeded any former fair held there by its large supply of horses and bullocks, for which there was a lively demand, and a great number were sold. From the desirable situation of this parish, it is the general opinion of farmers that this fair will soon rise to exceed most of the country fairs in its vicinity. Distressing Accident - On Sunday morning last, as the family of Mr. John Michell, of Calenick, were proceeding to their place of worship at Truro, in a four-wheeled phaeton, some boys jumped from a hedge near the entrance to the town, and startled the horse, which ran off, and turning into a ditch, upset the vehicle. Mrs. and Miss Michell were both severely injured, the former having broken both bones of her right leg, and the latter the metacarpal bone of the right hand. We regret to add that the driver also received considerable injury. Ruffianism - Some wanton and malicious villain - some horrible and loathsome monster in human form - on the night on Monday, the 9th instant, threw a very handsome and valuable Newfoundland dog, the property of Mr. J Polkinhorn, of the Red Lion Hotel, St. Columb, into a pump, in the vicinity of the town, where the poor animal, in consequence of the water being too shallow to drown him, remained until the following day, when a boy being in the neighbourhood was attracted to the spot by his howlings and groans. A man was let down into the pump, who found the poor creature in the most deplorable condition, with his skull broken in, and a stone weighing half a cwt., attached to his neck by a cord. He was taken up, and lingered for a week, when he died. Mr. Polkinghorn has offered �10 for the discovery of the offender, and will give �10 more, but he has not yet been discovered, though suspicion attaches strongly on a person who is closely watched. The dog was so handsome in form, and majestic in appearance, that Mr. Polkinhorn was offered ten guineas for him on the previous day. [Polkinhorn was spelled both with and without the 'g'� in the article. jm] Truro Town Council Meeting - Mr. Turner proposed Mr. G. N. Simmons to be the new Town-clerk, and Dr. Carlyon seconded the proposal. Mr. Chappel proposed Mr. J. Ferris Benallack to be the new Town-clerk, and Mr. Tippet seconded the proposal, Upon a division, there appeared for Mr. Simmons, Mr. Turner, Dr. Carlyon, Mr. Spry, Mr. Vice, Mr. Josephus Ferris, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Tealor, Capt. Kempe, Mr. Baynard, Mr. Treloar, and the Mayor; for Mr. Benallack, Mr. James Ferris, Mr. John Ferris, Mr. Chappel, Mr. Bice, Mr. Paddon, Mr. Tippet, Mr. E. Michell, Mr. R. Michell, Mr. Willyams, and Mr. Hodge. The Mayor then declared Mr. George Nicholls Simmons duly elected. Emigration - The ship "Upton Castle"� having on board Sir George Gipps (governor of New South Wales), his lady and suite, sailed from Plymouth on Monday last for Sydney. There were on board about twenty other highly respectable cabin passengers, also bout the same number of intermediate passengers, consisting chiefly of persons with capitals varying from �300 to �1,000 each, whose object is to purchase land and stock in New South Wales. About 30 married couples, and a few single persons, went as steerage passengers, being for the most part useful mechanics, with a few shepherds and agricultural servants. They were all respectable in their several stations in life, and cannot but prove a valuable acquisition in the prosperous land of their adoption. The "Upton Castle"� is the fourth ship which has left Plymouth this year for Sydney, under the direction of Mr. John Marshall, Australian Emigration Agent, of London; and in every instance they have departed with the strictest punctuality on the day originally announced for sailing. The importance of this regularity to all persons emigrating cannot be over estimated, and we only discharge our duty to the public in pointing attention to it. A Great Sea Serpent - One of those great serpents probably some relation to that seen lately at "Storfozen and the Kregisang Islands" called a conger, was brought into Mevagissey last week, by a fisherman named John Hicks, which weighed 95 lbs. It is supposed to be the largest ever brought in there. Pilchard Fishery - The seans at Mevagissey and Goran-haven have been stopped for some time. Two ground seans caught at the latter place on Monday, the 16th instant, from 1,300 to 1,400 fine pilchards each, several small shermering shoals having made their appearance close in. [shermering=shimmering??] Fowey - The "Amity" sean belonging to Messrs. G. Nickels and Co., shot in Lanivet Bay on Monday night last, and took up about ten hogsheads of pilchards, which were quickly sold the following morning to the inhabitants of Fowey at 4s. per basket. A small sean belonging to Mr. Lacey, of Fowey, was also shot the following morning inside of Fowey harbour, opposite the town quay, and took from 900 to 1000 fine pilchards, which were also sold at four-a-penny. Should the weather continue fine, it is anticipated at Fowey that there will yet be some good catches. Great quantities of fish have been seen on the coast, which has made the seaners of Fowey quite alive, and all the seans are out. St. Ives - no pilchards have been seen during the week, but the herring fishery is good, some of the boats having brought in from 10,000 to 20,000 each night. [continued to next page] |