| 1 APRIL 1853 CAUTION - I hereby give notice that I will not be answerable for any debts which may be incurred by my wife, Ann FEATHERSTONE, after this date, she having left me and became unlawfully married to one Peter KNIGHT. Thomas Featherstone, Redruth, March 30, 1853. LADY GILBERT - Amongst the passengers who came home from the East Indies in the "Calcutta" steamer, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday last, was Lady Gilbert, the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert. ST JUST IN PENWITH. - Mr. John WARREN, bookseller, has been appointed post-master at this place. SCHOONER LAUNCHED. - On Saturday, the 26th ult., was launched from the building year of Mr. John TREDWEN, jun., of Padstow, a handsome schooner named "St. Petrock," purchased by a party of gentlemen from Bodmin and Wadebridge, to be under the command of Captain Philip JAMES, of Padstow, also part owner. This fine specimen of naval architecture glided majestically off the stocks, amidst the plaudits of the multitude. SHIPPING DISASTERS. - The "Smuggler" yawl, of Penzance, has been awarded �150 by the Court of Admiralty for services rendered the Dutch barque "Jeanette." On Thursday night, last week, there was a strong breeze, when the "Sarah Dixon," schooner, Capt. CARROLL, being insufficiently moored in Penzance harbour, was driven by the gale on to the rocks near the gas works, damaging her keel and bilges, and is discharging her cargo of mundle previous to repairing. The "Jim" of Waterford, Capt. Kennedy, in getting under weigh with other vessels, got in contact with the barque "Ocean Queen" from London for Liverpool, just off Mousehole. The latter carried away her jib-boom; the former returned, having carried away her foresail, fore and aft foresail, bulwarks, and stanchions. The schooner "Beryl," GREEN, lost her jib-boom, and the schooner "Victoria," WILLIAMS, had her taffrail knocked in. The "Eliza," JOHNS, from Swansea for Plymouth, got on shore in the night near the Mount Pier, but was hove off again. On Good Friday, the masts of a brig were seen on a ridge of rocks called "The Bridges," about a quarter of a mile from the Brisons, off St. Just, where the "New Commercial" was lost two years ago. At half-tide the vessel was a little above water, but her name or destination has not been ascertained. She appears to have been laden with coal, and had a white figure head. A few spars and sails have been washed ashore, but no bodies, and it is hoped that the crew have been saved, particularly as a sloop was seen passing up the channel with a boat at her stern. It is supposed that the vessel ran on the rocks during the heavy snow-storm on Thursday night through the captain not being able to see his position. Another account is as follows: The brig "George," 123 tons of Bideford, belonging to Mr. Thos. GEEN, of Bideford, Nicholas POPHAM, master from Cardiff to Southampton, with a cargo of coals, left on the 23rd inst. On the morning of the 25th, at half-past one during a snow storm and a gale of wind from S.E., struck on the Brisons Rocks, near Cape Cornwall; the crew took the long boat, and were picked up by the schooner "Brilliant," Captain WALTERS, of Looe, and landed at that place. The ship went to pieces within ten minutes after leaving. The crew, seven in all, were provided with board and lodging by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, and sent to Plymouth, and again relieved and forwarded to Bideford, their destination. TRURO POLICE. - On the 23rd ult., Elizabeth HAYCROFT was charged with stealing one sovereign, two half crowns and a purse, the property of Susan COBDEN, wife of Jonathan Cobden, of Feock. The money was missed by Mrs. Cobden as she was standing in Mr. DIXON's Grocer's shop; the prisoner was in the shop at the time, and on the evidence adduced, she was committed for trial at the sessions. On Monday last, William RHODES and John CHANDLER, of Reading, Berkshire, two navvies working at the Polperro tunnel, were charged with stealing a silver watch, a measuring tape, and a knife, the property of Richard HARGREAVES, railway sub-contractor. On the previous Friday night, the three men were drinking at Iles's beer house in Kenwyn Street. Hargreaves took out his watch, and finding it was half-past ten, wished the others good-night, and went towards his lodgings in Daniell Street. The two prisoners followed and overtook him as he was going through Back Lane, and accompanied him to Stephen JOHNS's beer-house, in Calenich Street, where they called for a quart of beer. About ten minutes to eleven, Hargreaves left the house, being then under the influence of liquor; the two prisoners also left, and when complainant got home, he found his watch-pocket had been cut off, and his watch and the other things before mentioned were stolen. The prisoners were remanded until Tuesday, and none of the property having been found, they were then discharged for want of evidence. INQUESTS - The following inquests have been held before Mr. HAMLEY, county coroner:- On Saturday the 19th ultimo, on John HOBBER, a miner, at Saint Blazey. He worked at West Fowey Consols. He went down the engine shaft to repair something, under the directions of Captain STEVENS, who stood on the top of the shaft for that purpose, when, on the Captain looking down he saw Hobber put his head out too far just as the bob was coming up, which caught his head and crushed it to pieces against a beam above. He was considered a good miner, and had worked in that mine for three years. Verdict, "accidental death." On the 24th of March, on a child sixteen months old, the son of a labourer named JOSE, at Advent. The mother had put her child in bed, in his usual health, with his grandmother, who was bed-ridden, and in a few minutes the old woman called to her daughter that there was something the matter with the child. She took him up, but he died almost immediately in her arms, supposed in a fit. Verdict, "natural causes." On the 26th of March, at St. Veep, on Elizabeth SANDY, an old woman aged 75. She lived in a cottage with her daughter at Penpoll. The daughter had left her after dinner to go to her work at a neighbouring farmer's. The old woman was seen in the afternoon to fetch some water from a well and go into her house. A labourer, returning from his work in the evening, on passing the old woman's door, saw the room full of smoke. He went in, spoke, but got no answer; he saw some burnt clothes lying in different parts of the room. After some time, he found the body of the old woman lying on the floor with all her clothes burnt off, and nothing remained but her stockings and shoes. The whole of the body was completely charred, and presented a horrid appearance. It was supposed that she was sitting too near the fire, when her clothes caught. Verdict, "accidental death." ST AUSTELL PETTY SESSIONS. - These sessions were held in the Town Hall, on Tuesday last, when John RADFORD, one of the sub-contractors on the railway, was summoned by William VEALE, for arrears of wages, amounting to 6s., which he was ordered to pay at once with costs. Several drivers of wagons were summoned by the police, for obstructing the thoroughfare on the eastern turnpike, when two named Samuel CUNDY and ... Common, were fined 10s. and costs. Robert GRIGG and Samuel CROWLE, were fined 5s. and costs; Henry MELLEN, James HORE, and Samuel THOMAS, were fined 1s. and costs; and Robert VERCOE, was fined 10s. and costs for allowing a little boy, about ten years of age, to drive a team of horses with a wagon. After so many cautions and accidents which have taken place on this hill, through wagons being left in the way, it is hoped that the parties to whom they belong will take care that there be no such obstruction in future. Jane GEORGE of Mevagissey, was charged with assaulting Mrs LUKE, of the same place, and was fined, but refusing to pay was committed to Bodmin gaol for seven days. COMMITTALS. - On Monday last, a man named Nathaniel GRIGG, of the parish of Roche, was committed for twenty-one days to the county gaol, for refusing to maintain his wife and family. On Wednesday last, two men named Charles IVEY and John SLOGGETT, were committed for trial at the ensuing sessions, on the charge of assaulting William HART, a constable, whilst in the execution of his duty, but bail was accepted for their appearance. BOAT ACCIDENT. - We noticed last week the narrow escape from drowning of three young gentlemen by the upsetting of a boat in Fowey river, two of whom were stated to be sons of the Rev. E.J. TREFFRY, of Place. We understand this was an inaccuracy; they were sons of the Rev. Percival FRYE, vicar of St Winnow. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. - On Thursday, last week, at Gorran haven, the men went out in boats on their usual employment of crabbing, when a violent gale arose from S.E., but the boats all arrived ashore in safety with the exception of one, in which was an aged man named BRADLEY, and a cripple William BALL. When within a few fathoms of the shore they were both plunged into the water, but by the activity of the young men of the place, they were both rescued, though Ball, when taken up, was to all appearance lifeless, and Bradley had been in the water a quarter of an hour before he was rescued. MINE ACCIDENT - At Ding Dong Mine a few days since, Captain TRURAN had been engaged in dialling, and some men were talking with him underground standing near a shaft, when a quantity of rubbish containing a stone supposed to be a ton weight, fell away, carrying with it two men a depth of five fathoms. A man named CARBIS was so buried that he was with difficulty extricated, receiving severe bruises in the back and shoulders. Another named COCK, fell on the stone and fractured both the bones in his leg. The under man had a very narrow escape; his shoes were but to pieces by the heavy stone. FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Wednesday evening, the 23rd ult., William EDDY, of Camborne, aged 52 years, a servant in the employ of Messrs BICKFORD and CO., safety-fuse manufacturers of Tuckingmill, was driving a horse and wagon near the Victoria Inn, in the parish of Roche. The wagon was laden with safety-fuse for mines in the east of the county and Devon, and the driver was about to feed his horse, when the animal became restive and ran off, and the driver falling on the ground, sustained a fracture of the base of the skull, by which means the large blood-vessels passing through the base of the skull were lacerated, and blood flowed so freely from the left ear, nose, and month, that with the concussion of the brain, the poor man expired almost immediately. Mr. HARRIS, surgeon of Redruth, who was returning from the assizes, examined the injuries received by the deceased, and an inquest having since been held, a verdict of accidental death was returned. 8 APRIL 1853, Friday APPOINTMENT - Appointment of Auditor for the Cornwall and Devonshire Audit District. I, ALFRED AUSTIN, Esq., the Poor Law Inspector, determined by the Poor Law Board to conduct the Election of an AUDITOR for the Cornwall and Devonshire Audit District, do hereby certify the Mr. NORTHMORE HERLE PIERCE LAWRENCE, of North End House, Ipplepen near Newton Abbot, has been duly elected Auditor for the said District. (Signed) ALFRED AUSTIN, Poor Law Inspector, Poor Law Board, Whitehall. March 29, 1853. PURSUANT to the Acts for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, in the County Court of Warwickshire, at Coventry, by virtue of an order of this Honourable Court, the person undermentioned will be heard on his petition to the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, at the County Hall, Coventry, on the twentieth day of April, 1853, at Twelve o'clock at Noon. CHARLES HENRY MAY, late of Truro, in the County of Cornwall, Assistant to an Ironmonger, previously of North Street, Rugby, in the County of Warwick, Ironmonger and Grocer. JOHN POWELL, Solicitor, 156 Moor Street, Birmingham. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause "Spear v. Spear," the creditors of JOHN SPEAR, late of Stokeclimsland, in the county of Cornwall, Yeoman, (who died on or about the 11th day of March, 1848,) are by their Solicitor, on or before the 15th day of April next, to come in and prove their debts, at the Chambers of Joseph HUMPHRY, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, in Southampton Buildings, in the county of Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said decree. The 22nd day of April instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon at the said Master's Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 21st day of February, 1853. COODE, BROWNE, KINGDONS and COTTON, 10 King's Arms Yard, Moorgate Street, London. Agents for Charles Coode, of Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall, Plaintiff's Solicitor. CHARLES FAULL, 16, was found Guilty of stealing, on the 22nd of March, at the parish of Illogan, 2lbs of candles, the property of John CARPENTER and Samuel TREGONING, tutwork-men in East Pool mine, - One Months's Hard Labour. TRIALS OF PRISONERS - WILLIAM THOMAS, 22, was charged with stealing a woollen shirt from Trebell-Consols changing house, belonging to John DATSON, miner. Mr. COMMINS for the prosecution and Mr. SHILSON for the prisoner. The prosecutor, John Datson, worked at Trebell Consols in the parish of Lanivet. He left a woollen shirt in the changing house on Friday the 4th of February; the door of the house was then locked, but on the following Monday it was found that the staple of the door had been forced, and prosecutor's shirt had been stolen. On the following 23rd of March, constable MARSHALL of Lanivet, having received information, went with the prosecutor's wife and apprehended prisoner on Lamorrick moor, in Lanivet parish. He was then wearing a short which prosecutor identified as his property. For the defence Mr. Shilson urged that the prisoner had not been seen in the neighbourhood about the time of the robbery, and that the account he gave the constable, that HAWKES of Bodmin, had given him the shirt, was probably correct. One or two of the witnesses admitted that they had heard one of the Hawkes's had left the neighbourhood. Prisoner, when apprehended, was in the turnpike road, not far from prosecutor's house; if he had stolen the shirt, he was not likely to wear it so near to prosecutor's house. The Chairman having summed up, the jury after some time retired from the court and were locked up until half-past eight o'clock, when they returned a verdict of Not Guilty. THOMAS PHILP, a respectable looking young farmer, was charged with having, on the 24th of March, at the parish of Lanreath, stolen two barley sheaves, the property of John MARSHALL, miller. Mr. Humphry GRYLLS conducted the prosecution; Mr. CHILDS (for Mr. SHILSON) the defence. It appeared that on the 10th of March, the prosecutor, a miller, living at Penpoll, in St. Veep, attended a public sale of farm stock at Higher Trevollard, in Lanreath - a farm in the occupation of Mrs Philp, the prisoner's mother, and with whom he lived. He bought part of a barley-mow for �6; the prisoner being present at the sale; and, as the mow was to be thrashed and the straw left on the premises, he left the mow in charge of two men living close by, called William WILLCOCK and Peter HAMLEY. His turn to thrash arrived on the 24th of March, and on the morning of that day he found that several sheaves of barley had been removed from the mow. In consequence of information he had received, he had caused a watch to be set at night. In the afternoon of the 23rd of March, Martha WILLCOCK, who lived close by the mowhay, went thereon with a cousin Mrs. SEARLE, who has the present occupation of Higher Trevollard; and while there the prisoner said to her "your fowls have been eating Mr. Marshall's barley-mow." She said, "not mine, but yours also." She had before observed that barley had been taken from the mow since the sale. On the night of the 23rd, Mrs. Willcock watched for him, in her own premises; and while she was in her own linhay, about eight yards from the hedge of the mow-hay, which it overlooked across a road, about quarter past twelve o'clock, she saw prisoner pass under her in the road in a cart; he walked up to the barley-mow, and with a lantern and candle, began looking about under the steads, and beating about the mow and the hedge with a large stick, he kept calling out "come out, Knacker; I know you're here." "Knacker" was a nick-name of one of the men who had been put to watch. He then went and looked over the hedge, and seeing no person in the lane, he went to the off corner of the barley-mow and took out two sheaves which he carried away. It was bright moonlight at the time. Mrs. Willcock exclaimed to him-"Now then I have catched the rogue; this is not Mrs. Willcock's fowls eating the barley, but I see how it has been carried away." Philip HAMLEY was examined in corroboration - Mr. CHILDS addressed the Jury in defence, and called Eliza EDWARDS, wife of Thomas Edwards, of Trevollard; her son, Thomas Edwards, a little boy; and Mrs. Philp, the mother of the prisoner. The object of the defence was mainly to show that at the time of the alleged felony, the prisoner was either at the house of Mrs. Edwards, or at his mother's who was staying up that night preparing for quitting the premises. The Chairman, however, in summing up, considered that the evidence given in defence was not inconsistent with Mrs. Willcock's statement that she had seen him commit the felony at the time she had named; and although her manner of giving evidence was peculiar, he did not see that there was anything in it to impeach the credit of her testimony. The Jury found a verdict of GUILTY. - FOUR MONTHS' HARD LABOUR. ANN WHITEFIELD, 42, was charged with having on the 25th of March, at the parish of Stratton, stolen a quantity of potatoes, the property of Richard SCOWN, butcher. GUILTY - THREE MONTHS' HARD LABOUR. JOHN EDE and MARY EDE, an elderly couple, the old man paralysed, were indicted for keeping on the 1st of March, and at divers other times, a certain ill-governed and disorderly house in the parish of Kenwyn, for the purpose of gain and lucre. The house in question is situation in St. Dominick Street, Truro, and the witnesses called were residents in the same street, and Mr. Nash police inspector of Truro. These witnesses stated occasions on which they had seen men and women of ill-fame go into the house and deposed to disorderly and noisy conduct there. The house had been kept by the prisoners about six months. Mr. Nash deposed that he had received complaints of the house, and in consequence had gone there, and found men and women of ill-fame in the house. He believed the old man, the prisoner, to be paralysed, and not in his right mine when he saw him in the house. Mr. Stokes addressed the jury for the defence. Verdict, both GUILTY. John Ede, one week's imprisonment; Mary Ede, Four month's imprisonment. The Court then rose. MATTHEW ROGERS, 23, was indicted for stealing shirt-buttons from the shop of Mr. William HICKS, of St. Columb; and JAMES JOHNSON 27, was charged with receiving the same knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. G. COLLINS conducted the prosecution. Several witnesses were examined; the prisoner Rogers was in the shop on the 29th of March on the pretence of buying buttons, and after he had left some were missed. The other prisoner, Johnson, was afterwards detected offering the buttons for sale to the landlady of the Seven Stars Inn, in St. Columb. Both prisoners were found GUILTY. Four months hard labour. SAMUEL KEAST, was charged with stealing wheat, the property of Francis TAMBLYN; a second count charged the prisoner with feloniously receiving the same. Mr. H. GRYLLS for the prosecution, and Mr. BOWEN for the defence. On the morning of the 25th of January prosecutor missed three sacks of wheat from his barn. He searched around in brakes and plantations without success, and carried samples of the same sort of wheat to millers in the neighbourhood, with the view of detecting the thief. On the 28th of January, another farmer, James Olver, having lost fowls, obtained a warrant from the Hon. G.M. FORTESCUE, and went with two constables to search prisoner's premises on suspicion. Prisoner had a small barn, in which they found about four and a half bushels of wheat; prisoner had only grown barley last year. There was a large gravel, prosecutor said, in the wheat he had lost, from its having been thrashed on a lime-ash floor. A sample of the wheat found in prisoner's barn was produced and prosecutor swore to it as being his property. When the wheat was found, prisoner's wife at first said it belonged to her husband, but afterwards she said it was not his. For the defence it was suggested that a shoemaker who had lodged with the prisoner, but had left his lodgings, had probably been concerned with the magger. Verdict, GUILTY of feloniously receiving. Six months' hard labour. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6. - Header John MOLESWORTH ST. AUBYN, Esq., of Clowance; and John BORLASE, Esq., of Castle Horneck, qualified as magistrates. TRIALS OF PRISONERS - STEPHEN CUNDY, 53? Pleaded guilty of stealing on the 26th of March, at the parish of St. Germans, about 7lbs of hay, the property of Edmund Snell TUCKER. Two months' hard labour. ELIZABETH HAYCRAFT, wife of James Haycraft, charged with stealing on the 23rd of March, one sovereign, two half-crowns, and a purse, the property of Jonathan CONGDON. Mr. HOCKEN conducted the prosecution: Mr. STOKES the defence. Susan Congdon, wife of Jonathan Congdon, seaman of Feock, deposed that on Wednesday, March 23rd, she went to the shop of Mr. DIXON, at Truro. She had a purse containing a sovereign and two half-crowns. There was no one in the shop but Mr. GIBSON the shopman, and while he was serving her Mrs. Haycraft came in. Another customer also came in, but she was served and left before witness took her purse from her pocket. She had a list of articles she wanted in her purse, and having been served with part, she referred to the list, and laid the purse on the counter, covering it with her hand. The shopman meantime served Mrs. Haycraft, who was standing close by. Witness found she wanted some coca, and went to the higher end of the shop to taste it, leaving her purse on the counter. Mrs. Haycraft then left the hop, and when witness returned in about two minutes, the purse was gone. There were three children at the higher end of the shop; the counter was more than fourteen feet long; witness was at the bottom of the shop close by Mrs. Haycraft. The children were on one side of witness, and Mrs. Haycraft the other; the purse was between witness and Mrs. Haycraft. Witness went to the police station, and a constable went in search of Mrs. Haycraft. After that witness went to the shop of Messrs. HODSEN and CROWLE; saw Mrs. Haycraft there purchasing some drapery, and then ran and got a policeman. Samuel Maxberry GIBSON, shopman at Mr. Dixon's grocer of Truro, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. He thinks the children went out before Mrs. Haycraft, and they had not to pass where Mrs. Congdon stood. Maria CUMING lives with her mother, who keeps a confectionary shop in Truro. About half-past one on the 23rd of March, changed a sovereign for Mrs Haycraft. Witness has the sovereign. Thomas DACEY? Police constable, apprehended Mrs Haycroft about two o'clock on that day, in the shop of Messrs. Hodson and Crowle. William WOOLCOCK, police constable, while Mrs. Haycraft was at the station, inquired what money she had. She had 19s. 5d. in her pocket. Went to Messrs. Hodson and Crowle's shop, and found about ten shillings scattered loosely in her basket. Asked her if she had changed a sovereign. She said she had not changed or seen a sovereign that day. Witness produced a purse which some other person had picked up, and which Mrs Congdon identified. Mr. Stokes addressed the jury for the defence and called the following witnesses; John EDWARDS:- I have lodged with Mrs. Haycraft about eight years. I am a law-clerk, employed by Mr. Joseph NEWTON, steward of Mr. ENYS, at St. Agnes, and by others. On the morning of the 23rd of March, Mrs. Haycraft called me down to breakfast. She lives at Sunny-Corner, about one mile and a quarter from Truro. When she was about to start for market, I asked her whether she had seen Mr. CLINTON. She said, "I have not seen him yet, but I have got it here;" she then took a white handkerchief, or a piece of rag from her pocket, and showed me a sovereign, 5s., and 2s. 6d. and I think three sixpences. That was put aside to pay her rent. I thought she might want change; but she said, "I have eight or nine shillings in my pocket loose besides." I am quite clear I saw the sovereign and silver on that morning about half-past eight; and I saw her go away. - Cross examined - Mrs. Haycraft has been living at Sunny Corner since last June; before that, she lived in St. Austell Street; she went to Sunny Corner because it is more convenient for her husband, who is a timber measurer for the Customs. Her things were taken some time ago by her former landlord for double rent. Mr. William BARRETT:- I am an inhabitant and a native of Truro, and a member of the Town Council. I have known Mrs. Haycraft from her childhood; I never in my life heard anything against her before. Mr. Hockin replied; after which the chairman summed up, and the Jury found a verdict of Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy, on account of her previous good character. Four months hard labour. The following inquest has been held before Mr. John CARLYON, since our last report. On Monday last, at St. Anthony in Roseland, on the body of John SHORE, sailor, aged 23 years, who was wrecked last Thursday night under the following circumstances:- From the evidence of John RUNDELL, it appeared that deceased and himself sailed from Alderney on Wednesday the 30th ult., in a smack called the "Two Brothers" twenty three tons register. They had no cargo but about twelve tons of ballast on board; about nine o'clock in the evening of the following day, they were off St. Anthony Point, about a mile from the shore, when a sea struck her, and before she perfectly righted, she was struck by a second one, which completely disabled her, and she drifted ashore about a mile to the east of the Lighthouse, where she soon went to pieces. Witness and deceased both got on an island rock, where they remained about half an hour. The tide was then flowing, and after deceased has assisted witness in pulling off his sea boots, witness made for the shore, which he reached with great difficulty. Witness saw deceased on the rock after he had got on shore, and heard him crying for mercy, but he could render him no assistance and in the course of a short time, a sea washed over the rock and witness saw nothing more of him until he was picked up near the spot the following Saturday. Verdict, "accidentally drowned." SHIP ON FIRE. - By an extract from a Mauritius paper which has been sent us, we learn that the "Adelaide," 492 tons, TREMEARNE, master, from Adelaide, arrived there on the 11th of February, after a very narrow escape from being totally burnt. The cargo was a very valuable one, consisting of 40,557 oz. of gold besides copper, lead ore, wool, &c. From the account given by Capt. Tremearne, (of St. Ives) it appears that early in the morning of the 4th of February, smoke was seen issuing from the after hatchway, and although every effort was made to keep down the fire, flames issued from the after hatch several times in the course both of that and the following day. After that, however, the exertions of the captain and crew were crowned with success, and the fire appeared to be completely extinguished. In the meantime every preparation had been made for leaving the ship. Provisions had been stowed into the long boat and all the passengers having been got into it, it was dropped astern. The quarter boats were also provisioned and lowered. After the fire seemed to be extinguished however, the passengers were received back into the ship, and on the 11th of February they arrived at Mauritius where the greater part of the cargo has been discharged, the gold being deposited in the cellars of the Commercial Bank. The wool is found to be considerably damaged, and the after part of the deck of the vessel is much burnt. The highest praise is given by the passengers to Captain Tremearne, for his exertions in the fearfully responsible situation in which he was placed, and the whole of the crew, who we understand are Cornishmen, are said to have behaved extremely well. The conduct of the carpenter in particular is very highly spoken of. 15 APRIL 1853, Friday NOTICE - All persons having claims on the estate of Mr. SAMUEL HIGGS CLEAVE, late of St. Kew, in this County, Gentleman, deceased, are requested to send particulars thereof to my office; and all persons who may be indebted to the estate of the said Samuel Higgs Cleave, are requested to pay the amount of the same to me, on or before the 3rd day of May next. C.H.W. DENNIS, Solicitor, Camelford. Dated April 13th, 1853. NOTICE - All Persons indebted to Mr. NICHOLAS TREVENA, late of Redruth, in the county of Cornwall, Auctioneer, are requested immediately to pay the same at the office of deceased, situate at Redruth aforesaid; and all persons having any claims or demands on the late Mr. Trevena, are requested to send the same for examination and discharge, to Mr. S.T.G. DOWNING, Solicitor, Redruth. Dated Redruth, 12th April, 1853. THE VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA - Few emigrants who have reached Australia say much about the voyage in their correspondence. The new sphere absorbs the whole of their energies; and incidents which were jotted down with the intention of obtaining all possible publicity, are either unmentioned or are despatched in a hasty sentence. It is very interesting, nevertheless, to know how human beings, cooped up in such space, employ the weary weeks; and when intelligence of the kind does reach us, it is by no means skipped over or read with impatience. The following details may be found entertaining by many who know little of travelling by sea. In the Household Words last week, there are some entertaining extracts from the diary of a gentleman now in Australia. He found the regulations on board to be very unpleasant, the worst of them being caused by the parsimony of the proprietors and the captain. The latter, throughout the voyage, kept a sort of tap and chandlery, from whence tobacco, bottled porter, and ardent spirits were sold by the second and third mates, on his private account! The writer had no idea before starting, that as an intermediate passenger, he should have any cooking to do, and made a sad mess of it accordingly. Accidents were constantly happening through the rotten state of the ropes; a great quantity of the "preserved meat" had to be destroyed, and the "unpreserved" was little better. Here is a glimpse of a slight portion of his experience:- The self-resources of the passengers for passing their tedious hours were at the lowest ebb, and the means they adopted to amuse each other were not very much better. On the poop deck the gentlemen smoked cigars and tried to read, and the ladies did fancy-work and tried to read a little too. They inquired the ship's course since yesterday at twelve o'clock, and how long it wanted to dinner. In the evening they walked up and down-got up a little very queer singing, came and looked over the rail to see how we were amusing ourselves, then descended to tea, and sometimes a rubber of whist, after which they disappeared till next morning when the bell rang for breakfast. As for the intermediates, their occupations and amusements were limited to smoking, spitting, and lounging about all day, during the time they were not eating or drinking. The eating and drinking were the only great points of interest with them, viz., from meal to meal, and from day to day, and from week to week. In the evening there was occasionally an attempt to be genial, and a few songs were sung with choruses, and there was some dancing. The choruses showed manifest signs of rapid improvement, as there were some good voices, and one or two who knew how to drill them; the dancing also got better each time, and especially after a sailor had made a tambourine, out of one of the sheepskins, cleared off its wool, dried in the sun, and stretched across the lid of a flour cask. But half-a-dozen black guards in the ship took delight in spoiling everything, and as there was no order in the ship and no "public spirit," they were allowed to spoil everything. In vain had Arrowsmith declared allowed on the poop deck, in the hearing of all around, that the ship was in a most disorderly and unsafe condition, to say nothing of discomfort, from the want of all systematic arrangements and that all these arrangements, together with the requisite authority, devolved, so far as the passengers were concerned, upon Dr. Bannister and not upon the captain. All the good he effected was to make an enemy of Captain PENNYSAGE, for the doctor's long period of sea-sickness had rendered him totally unable to assume any authority; until the captain having taken all upon himself, would allow of no interference in his management. But as he had no sort of head to devise, or skill or firmness to carry out anything beyond the sailing of the ship on the most slow and economical principles, we are constantly in a scene of discomfort and confusion. Dr. Bannister made one or two attempts to take his proper position, but it was too late. Not only was the captain averse to resigning any claim to authority, but all the intermediates now resisted it, as an unjustifiable interference. They said his duty was only to attend to those who were ill, and not to meddle with those who were well and hearty; so they all refused to obey his directions, as to getting up in the morning and taking their bedding on deck to be aired; as to ranging themselves for their proper turns at the serving out of provisions; as to leaving their hot and fuming cabins and coming up, one and all, from the between decks or to the upper deck, while the sailors scraped and scrubbed and cleansed their place of abode below; as to extinguishing all private candles and lamps and candles at ten o'clock. The consequences were, that many who were well made themselves ill in various ways; the berths and cabins were in a most dirty, close, and unaired state, and the lower decks filthy with the mud of trodden biscuits, fat and gristle and skin of salt beef and pork, carelessly dropped, or recklessly thrown down, cooking refuse, slush buckets, foul swabs, brimming pails, dishcloths, and broken candles, with the froth and suds from attempts to wash with marine soap, and a running leeward gutter-stream from the occasional shipping of seas, and the frequent upset of water kegs or fall of rain down the open hatchways. The obtaining provisions for the messes was often a scene of brutal selfish scrambling, and it seldom happened that anybody got his proper weight, his sugar free from sticks and straws, his butter without a plentiful sprinkling of loose tea, and tobacco shreds, his coffee without sand and stones from the hold, his flour without an ounce or two of incidental mustard, or his mustard without being speckled with chloride of lime. This latter article Dr. Bannister ordered to be given to everybody who asked for it, and in abundance; but scarcely three of the passengers in the between decks took any of it, and with the exception of those three (Arrowsmith, myself, and Mrs. Crowhorne, who had a large family, nobody could be induced to make use of it in any shape or way, unless with the unavoidable mustard medium. Two children were killed through falling down the fore hatchway, and down through the open hatchway of the hold. The doctor ordered that they should be buried the following evening, which the mothers vehemently opposed, and thereupon arose a painful scene. "They," the mothers, "said they only wished no more harm would come to the health of the ship than what would happen by keeping those two sweet innocents aboard. The babes had been murdered, they said, by the want of proper protection and fenders, and insisted that they should be kept till we touched at some place where they could be buried properly, like in a Christian country. As this could not be listened to, a shocking scene took place - the mothers had to be taken down below by force, where they continued to scream - the husband of one of them collared Dr. Bannister as he was reading a bit of the burial service - and one of the mothers made her way by force on deck with her hair all flying in the wind, just as the dead body of her child was launched over the side, when she gave a loud scream with a leap upwards, and fell flat upon the deck without further motion. On one occasion five men went out to clear the rigging, when a sudden gust struck the flapping sail and crash went the jib-boom, which instantly fell into the sea, carrying with it of course, the flying jib-boom, and both sails, together with the five men. In an instant all was confusion on deck:- "Ropes were thrown over the side for the men to catch at - the life-buoy was cut adrift, but was so jammed that it would not fall down - some ran to lower the quarter boats - others called out for the life-boat to be got out - and Captain Pennysage ran about giving all sorts of orders, and not attending to any one of them being put into execution. Meantime the ship had been hove to - three of the men were clinging to the wreck of ropes and spars in the sea - and Arrowsmith and the second mate, both first-rate swimmers, jumped overboard and swam to their assistance. Just as they had helped the third man up the side, a loud shriek was heard to leeward, followed by a cry from the deck of 'Shark! Shark!' and a rush of all the passengers to the leeward side. One of the poor fellows had been taken down by a shark. Mr. POUNDERBY and Mrs. PYKE both saw it. The remaining sailor was still swimming for his life, and crying out for a boat. Arrowsmith and the second mate, with excited gestures and large eyes, came scrambling up the ship's side. A loud cry, swelling into a combined scream, from all the passengers! I looked over the side, and was just in time to see the sailor, with a face as white as a ghost, swung backwards and disappear beneath the wave. His mouth was wife open - I think with horror - some said he gave a scream, but I never heard it." The following paragraph is but too fatally connected with the above:- "Sunday 18th. - WAITS, brought into the cabin a small piece of dry touchwood. I said, 'Stuff to light a pipe with, to be sure.' He said, 'Yes, it was; but what had it lately been, or what had it been part of?' - 'Off the inside of some old rotten tree or branch,' said I. Waits folded it up in paper, and put it in his box. 'Part of the jib boom of the Rodney-rig! Said he, 'just at the place where it broke. No wonder it broke. Two men's lives lost by a rotten spar, and a narrow escape for five others. That's the way to fit out ships to make money by passengers!' A gentleman who left Belfast a few months ago gives some useful advice as to the outfit,&c. "Before you go on board," he says, "have all things you don't want for the voyage so closely packed up and roped in one box that any jolting or shaking cannot unsettle them. Have those things you require in a small trunk, eighteen inches wide, twelve inches high, and as long as you please, so that it may get under your bunk or bed-place. Have three or four blue shirts, of the coarsest description, which you can wear on the voyage and wash them also; but never attempting to wash anything in salt water you intend to use when you come here. Procure the tidiest and worst suit of clothing for shipboard, leaving yourself an opportunity of matching yourself in the extremes of heat and cold - a jacket is preferable to a coat, and a cap to a hat for passing up and down the hatchways. Bring a light straw hat for the tropics. Don't neglect to get a carpet-bag, which you can hang over your bed, and in which you can stow matters hourly required; and be very watchful, when entering and leaving the ship, or you will be minus some useful and portable articles. As the water is sure to be bad, don't neglect brining some disinfecting powders - lime juice, and soda, and tartaric acid, or some such thing to enable you to drink what you would fancy to be putrid water... Make little freedom on board with any one, and let no person know what or who you are, whether worth one pound or ten thousand; be civil and respectful I your demeanour but not too condescending. You have the scum of society and the top of it to deal with, not knowing either. Never drink spirituous liquors, nor play for any money while in a ship. EMIGRATION. - On Tuesday last, the "Royal Adelaide," RICHARDS, master, sailed from Fowey for Quebec with ninety-eight passengers on board, who were all in good health and spirits, and were heartily cheered by the inhabitants of Fowey and Polruan, as the vessel passed out of the harbour, the cheers being responded to by the passengers and crew. DEPARTURE OF CORNISH MINERS - On Saturday last, twenty-two emigrants, chiefly miners from the neighbourhood of Redruth, sailed from Plymouth in the schooner "Lile,", Captain E. RADDON, the destination of the vessel being Escribanos, about fifty miles west of Chagres. The "Lile," belongs to Messrs. HOCKING and SONS, Stonehouse, and is chartered to Messrs. BRAINE and CO., London. The emigrants are gone out to work gold and silver mines for a London company. The ship "Caroline" sailed from Falmouth with a staff of Cornish Miners, Mechanics and Officers, to resume the working of the Strathalben Copper Mines, in Australia. They have with them from five to six hundred tons of tools, and machinery of every description, to give the mines a fair and spirited trial. PENZANCE - At this court on Tuesday, there were seventy-two cases for trial but none were of very special interest. John SCOBELL, of Nancealverne,? V. George JENKIN, was an action to recover �20, for two years rent of a house and land in Buryan. Co. Scobell proved his claim and a verdict was given for the amount, to be paid in instalments. FIRE. - On Tuesday last, about one o'clock, a hayrick was burnt adjacent to Coxhead cottage, at the top of Pydar Street, Truro. The rick comprised upwards of four tons of hay, value about �12, and belonged to Mr. DOBB, of the Seven Stars Inn. The whole was consumed with the exception of about half a ton, which was greatly damaged. It is supposed that the fire was occasioned by some lads who were smoking near to the spot. ACCIDENT AT SEA. - A fatal accident occurred on board the "John Wickliffe," off Cape Horn on the 21st of December, 1852, by which Mr. James MARCH, chief officer, aged 27 ears (son of the late Lieut. J. March of St. Stephens, Saltash), lost his life. The four-top sail tye broke, carrying away the top-gallant yard; Mr. March went aloft to see the yard sent on deck, and while standing on the fore-top sail yard, the tye broke a second time, and the yard came down with a rush, throwing Mr. March and a seaman overboard. The helm was immediately put a-lee and a boat lowered, a rope was thrown from the poop by which the seaman was saved, but Mr. March released the rope, also a life buoy and a piece of wood which was thrown astern, and before the boat reached the spot he had sunk. TRURO POLICE. - On Thursday the 7th instant, Stephen JOHNS, beer-house keeper in Calenick street was fined �5 and costs for serving beer between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock on Sunday morning the 3rd of April. John STEPHENS, brush maker, and George PAPPIN were charged with assaulting and resisting Joseph WARD, police constable, while in the execution of his duty. It appeared that Ward had Pappin in custody for being drunk and disorderly, when he was attacked and knocked down by Stephens, and the prisoner rescued. Both were fined �1 and costs, and in default of payment were committed for one month to hard labour. Stephen MAY, Mary Ann MAY, and Martha Truscott were charged with assaulting Grace WILLIAMS on Saturday night last, near the Truro market house. Stephen May was fined 5s. and costs and in default of payment was committed for one month to the House of Correction. Mary Ann May and Martha Truscott were discharged on payment of costs. On Wednesday last, Lavinia BURGOYNE, charged with breaking the window of Fanny CRAZE?, was fined �1, including the damage done to the window, and in default of payment was committed for two months to hard labour. COMMITTAL. - On Wednesday, a man named William ROBINS, of St. Austell, was committed to Bodmin gaol for breaking and destroying the household furniture of the person with whom he lodge. On Saturday at Blackwater, in the parish of Kenwyn, on the body of Margery MOYLE, aged 88 ears, who died from injuries she sustained by a hot coal falling from the fire which she was blowing, and igniting her clothes. Her daughter who was generally with her, had only left her house a few minutes before to fetch some water. An opposite neighbour though she heard a woman screech, and on going to the door, saw the deceased out in the road with her clothes in a blaze of fire. She and her father ran out to give assistance, and after some time, by throwing water and dragging her clothes off, they contrived to extinguish it. They then assisted her in, and Mr. Moyle, surgeon, attended her, but her right side and arms were so much burnt as to cause her death after lingering from the 2nd to the 9th instant. Verdict, "accidental death." On Monday, at Kessell, in the parish of St. Ewe, on the body of James LOBB, a respectable farmer of that place, aged 63 years, who was returning from St. Austell market last Friday evening in his cart, when the horse which was a spirited one, ran away with him near Tregenna Downs Hill. A woman called Maria SPARES, who was following close behind him at the time, seeing the horse start off, ran after the cart, and, on turning the next corner she saw deceased lying across the road, and the cart upset and the horse down, about thirty years further on. She assisted deceased to a little bank by the side of the road, and, from thence, after a few minutes, he managed to walk to where the horse and cart were. Whilst looking at the horse, hr reeled back against the hedge, where he remained until a person called John SECCOMBE arrived at the spot, who had him removed into his cart and drove him home, where he died about two o'clock the following morning. The wheels had evidently passed over his body, producing some great internal injury which caused his death. Verdict, "accidental death." 22 APRIL 1853, Friday All Persons indebted to Mr. Nicholas TREVENA, late of Redruth, in the county of Cornwall, Auctioneer, are requested immediately to pay the same at the office of deceased, situate at Redruth aforesaid: and all persons having any claims or demands on the late Mr. Trevena, are requested to send the same for examination and discharge to Mr. S.T.G. DOWNING, Solicitor, Redruth. Dated Redruth, 12th April, 1853. DUTY FREE. Whereas, on the sixth day of April, 1853, a petition for an adjudication of Bankruptcy was filed against Richard STEPHENS of Truro, in the county of Cornwall, Draper, Dealer and Chapman, in her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter district, and he being adjudged Bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to MONTAGUE BAKER BERE, Esq., Commissioner of her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy for the Exeter district, on the 26th day of April instant, at Eleven of the clock in the Forenoon precisely, and on the 24th day of May next, at Eleven of the clock in the forenoon precisely, at the Court of Bankruptcy, for the Exeter district, in Queen Street, in the city of Exeter, and makes a full discovery and disclosure of his Estate and Effects, when and where the Creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts; and at the first sitting to choose Assignees, and at the last sitting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. HIRTZEL, Queen Street, Exeter, the Official Assignee whom the Commissioner has appointed, and give notice to Messrs. GEARE, MOUNTFORD, AND GEARE, or Mr. STOGDON, Solicitor, Exeter. COUNTY COURT OF CORNWALL, REDRUTH. - Whereas a petition of WILLIAM CARGLOTH GRYLLS, of the town of Redruth, in the County of Cornwall, Innkeeper, an Insolvent Debtor, having been filed in the County Court of Cornwall, holden at Redruth, in the said county, and an Interim Order for Protection from process having been given to the said William Cargloth Grylls under the provision of the Statutes in that case made and provided, the said William Cargloth Grylls is hereby required to appear in the said Court, to be holden at Redruth aforesaid, before the Judge of the said Court, on the Twelfth day of May next, at eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, for his first examination touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Statutes; and Notice is hereby Given that the choice of Assignees is to take place at the time so appointed. All persons indebted to the said William Cargloth Grylls, or who have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. FRANCIS PAYNTER, the Clerk of the said Court, at his Office at Redruth, in the said county. FRANCIS PAYNTER, Clerk. Dated 13th April, 1853. ST AGNES AND PERRANZABULOE MINING DISTRICT. - This district was visited on Tuesday the 12th instant, by a deputation of gentlemen from London, to witness the setting to work of a new thirty inch cylinder steam engine, on Perran Wheal Jane. It was made at the factory of Messrs. SANDYS, VIVIAN and Co. in their usual style of excellence, and has a nine feet stroke, and equal beam. Mr. Thomas JAMES of St. Agnes, is the engineer. The deputation also visited Perran Wheal Alfred, Prince Alfred Consols, and Wheal Kitty. All these mines have been recently set to work by the deputation and their co-adventurers, under the management of Capt. John DAVIES, of St. Agnes. The deputation the adjourned to Pearce's Hotel, St. Agnes, where they entertained the agents and a party of friends to a dinner comprising every delicacy of the season, and which was served up in Mrs. PEARCE's usual satisfactory manner. The village bells rang merry peals during the day, and the evening was enlivened by the performances of the St. Agnes amateur brass band; the deputation regaled the tradesmen and miners employed in Perran Wheal Jane and Perran Wheal Alfred, with a substantial dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, &c., at the inn kept by Mr. LETCHER, at Mithian. The next day the deputation went underground at Wheal Kitty and the other mines, and were greatly pleased with the discoveries made, and the promising state of the mines generally. THE MINERS STRIKE. - We stated last week that a strike had taken place amongst the miners in the parish of St. Just in Penwith, since which meetings of the men have continued to be held, but on the part of Henry SMITH, and the Boswedden men, the matter appears to have assumed a new aspect. They demand, on account of the present high price of tin, that the price of the pennyweight of tin paid to the miners, should be raised from sixteen-pence to twenty-pence; and they state that this would be advantageous to the adventurers as well as to themselves, as many pitchers? Would then be taken on speculation which would never be worked under the present system. They also complain as to the mode of trying the piles of tin staff, and of some arrangements as to "Doctor and club." It is stated that about two thousand had left their work, and a great many had taken their underground clothes from the mines. It is further stated that Levant, Spearne Consols, Spearne Moor, Wheal Carne, Boscean, and one or two smaller mines have yielded to the men on the question of the pennyweight, but that the managers of the three important mines of Botallack, Wheal Owles, and Balleswidden have expressed their determination not to give way. The miners have conducted themselves in a peaceable and orderly manner, but the present state of things must have a distressing effect upon the families of working men in the neighbourhood. SELF DESTRUCTION. - On the 3rd instant Mr. James PENGELLEY, farmer of Rock, St. Minver, got up as usual and went to see his farm. His wife being unwell, when he came back he carried her breakfast upstairs to her and took his own breakfast, and went up stairs for his razor and told his wife he was going to shave himself, instead of which he went out to an outhouse and cut his throat in a dreadful manner. The servant maid saw him fall; medical aid was procured but to no effect. INQUESTS - The following inquests have been held by Mr. John CARLYON, county coroner:- On Monday last, at Tregony, on the body of Francis WOOLCOCK, aged fifteen years, who was killed by a kick from an entire horse under the following circumstances. From the evidence of Samuel COLES, it appeared that the witness was employed by Mr. Joseph ROBERTS, of Trenance in St. Clement parish, to lead his horse "Brown George," and on Friday last he called with it at Mr. HOTTON's farm, Penpell, in the parish of Cornelly. Having heard that Mr. Hotton was in one of the fields of his farm, he was proceeding through a lane to see him, when the deceased, who was driving Mr. Hotton's horse in a cart, came out from a gate as the led horse was passing. The entire horse was capering a bit, and wanted to get at the horse in the cart, and presently the deceased exclaimed that the horse had kicked him. Mr. Hotton brought a cart and straw, and deceased was conveyed in it to his father's house in Tregony, where he died the following day. It appeared that the man Coles, who led the horse, bore a good character, and had been employed in the capacity for four seasons, and never met with an accident. The without laying any blame to him, returned a verdict of "accidental death." On the same day, in the parish of Kea, on the body of Joseph JEFFERY, aged five months. It appeared that the parents had put the deceased into their bed about half past eight on Sunday morning, and when they went up themselves to go to bed about ten, they found that he had moved from the place where they had put him, and was lying on his side with his face down on the tie. The father, on taking him up found he was dead. Mr. Moyle, surgeon, gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died from suffocation. He had known both parents since their marriage, and knew them to be remarkably kind and affectionate to their children. Verdict, "found dead." On Wednesday evening lat, at Truro, on the body of Edward MOUNTSTEPHEN, aged four years, the son of a tanner employed by Messrs. FERRIS, who was killed on the morning of that day by the wheel of a timber wagon going over him. Martin SIM deposed that about a quarter past eight in the morning he was standing at the entrance of Mr. Ferris's tan-yard, in Pydar Street, and saw an empty timber wagon coming down Pydar Street, drawn by four horses-two abreast. The driver was walking on the near side of his horses, and they were going along very steadily. Near Coombe's Lane, further down the street, he saw the deceased make a run from the pavement into the street towards the wagon, and when he reached the further hind-wheel he was knocked down and the wheel went over him. His brother at the time was riding at the point of the pole. John NEALE deposed that he was walking up Pydar Street, and saw the hind wheel of the wagon go over the deceased's head. Witness ran and picked him and, took him to his mother's house where he died almost immediately. The driver was a very steady man, and had been seen to whip off some boys from the wagon as he was coming down the street. The jury returned a verdict of "accidental death;" but they suggested that in consequence of many children getting about a wagon of that description going through the town, and the difficulty in the driver attending to them and his horses as well, it would be very desirable that there should be always a boy in attendance to prevent the dangerous practice of children getting up to ride. 29 APRIL 1853, Friday SAILINGS - To Sail from Liverpool for Caldera, near Copiapo, Chili, 30th May, the very fine English built ship, "JOHN DALTON," William H. BOND, Commander. This magnificent ship is 640 tons register, classed at Lloyds twelve years A.1., and presents a most favourable opportunity for Miners and others going to Caldera, the nearest port to Copiapo, Chili. Only a limited number of twenty-four passengers will be taken. For further particulars apply to R.S. TEAGUE, Redruth Highway, Redruth. April 27, 1853. FREE PASSAGE TO AUSTRALIA. - A limited number of Copper Miners, Agricultural Labourers, Rough County Mechanics, with their wives and families, and a few Female Domestic or Farm-House Servants of good character, may obtain Free Passages to Adelaide, South Australia, in the ship "NEPTUNE," to embark at Plymouth on the 25th of May next, chartered by her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners. The rates of wages in the Colony and all other particulars may be obtained at the offices of the undersigned to whom immediate application should be made. THE FLORA DAY. - This ancient Festival will be celebrated on Monday the 9th of May. There will be a Ball in the evening at the Angel Inn. Dancing to commence at nine o'clock. Stewards, Sir R.R. VYVYAN, Bart., M.P., C.W. POPHAM Esq., H. MOLESWORTH ST AUBYN, Esq., Frederick HILL, Esq., T.P. TYACKE, Esq., Lieut. GRYLLS, 62nd Regt. Helston, 25th April, 1853. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. - Mr. James NICHOLLS, of Trekenning in this county, having undergone the necessary examination, was admitted a licentiate in midwifery, at a meeting of the Board of Examiners on the 13th instant. PLYMOUTH MARINE BOARD. - The following have passed their examinations and obtained certificates of competency as first class masters, Mr. Edward JOHNS, Gweek; Mr. BENNET and Mr. ROACH, St. Ives. TESTIMONIAL PRESENTED. - Mr. Thomas JACKS, one of the clerks of Messrs. RODD, DARKE, and CORNISH, solicitors of Penzance, having left their service to emigrate with his wife and family to New Zealand, his brother clerks, ten in number, invited him on Saturday evening last to a supper at the Three Tuns Hotel. Mr. W. RICHARDS, presided, and after an excellent repast, presented to Mr. Jacks a handsome dressing case with silver fittings, as a token of respect for his friendship and integrity of conduct during the whole period that they had been associated together. SCHOONER LAUNCHED - A splendid schooner was admirably launched from the building-yard of Mr. John TREDWEN, jun., of Padstow, on Saturday last, named the "Billow," to be commanded by Captain SPRAY, of Hayle. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. - About ten o'clock on the night of Thursday last, as Mr. William MARTINS, of Trewarrah in the parish of Lelant, and Mr. Robert MICHELL of Chyponds, in the parish of Towednack, were returning from Penzance market, they were met by two ruffian looking fellows in the third field between Ponsondane Bridge and Gulval Church-town. One of them immediately collared Mr. Michell and being a powerful man instantly threw him on his back and as Mr. Martins was just in the act of stooping to assist his partner in distress he was struck with some heavy weapon by the other robber, receiving a violent blow on the head which prostrated him senseless, and whilst in this state his purse was extracted from his pocket containing two pounds ten shillings. The robbers then decamped, carrying off also Mr. Michell's hat, which was nearly new. It is supposed that Mr. GRIGG, agent of the China Clay Works at Towednack South, passing by the spot a few minutes after the occurrence disturbed the villains, and but for that Mr. Michell thinks it highly probable that he also would have been robbed of his purse and contents. CORONERS' INQUESTS. - The following inquests have been held before Mr. John CARLYON, county coroner:- On Friday last at Penhallow, in the parish of Perranzabuloe, on the body of John MOORE, a miner, aged 49 years, who was killed on the 20th instant, in the twenty fathoms level, at the Perran United Mines, by a large rock turning out on him from the side of the level whilst he was at work. The rock was supposed to be about a ton in weight, and some miners were obliged to split before the deceased could be removed; but his death must have been almost instantaneous. Verdict, "accident death." On Monday last, at Falmouth on the body of Richard PEARCE, aged 49 years. From the evidence of Mr. Peter SHARP, jun., the landlord of the Dolphin Inn, it appeared that the deceased came into the house last Saturday evening, apparently in his usual health, and was served with a glass of gin and peppermint, and a penny pie; but he had not been in the house more than twenty minutes, when he was seized with a kind of stupor, and lost the use of his legs. Witness carried him upstairs, and sent for Mr. GUPPY, surgeon, who administered an emetic to him, and subsequently attempted to bleed him, but he never rallied, and died in about an hour. Mr. Guppy was of opinion that death was caused by effusion on the brain from an epileptic fit, followed by apoplexy, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. The deceased had been a very active officer in the police force in London, and subsequently at Durham, and had received very severe blows on his head on different occasions whilst serving in that capacity, the effects of which had no doubt been the cause of this and other fits he had had before. The following inquests have been held before Mr. HAMLEY, county coroner. On Monday last, on John WOOLCOCK, a miner, at Calstock. He was working in the seventy fathoms level in Drake Walls mine. He had just sent up a kibble when by some means a stone fell out, struck him on the head, and killed him on the spot. Verdict "accidental death." He was 38 ears old, and left a widow and four children. On the same day, at St. Neot, on John NORTHCOTT, aged 77. He was a carrier, and had gone to Moorswater, Liskeard, for some oats and coals. He incautiously took the bridle from the horse's head, (a cold) when he started off, knocked the old man down and the wheels went over him. He had medical assistance, but the injury was such that he died in a few hours. Verdict, "accidental death." On Tuesday last, on John HIGGS, at Launceston, aged 78. He had gone to bed in his usual health. His wife awaking about four o'clock in the morning, spoke to him, but he not answering, she called her son, who came and found him dead. Verdict, "died by the visitation of God." The following inquests have been held before Mr. HICHENS, county coroner. On the 20th instant, in the parish of Gwinear, on the body of Richard WARREN, aged 18 years. The deceased was a farm servant in the employ of Mr. Henry HUTHNANCE, at Drannack in that parish, and on the 18th instant he and some other servants, in consequence of having had a hard day's work on a neighbouring farm in preparing for tillage, were regaled by their master on finishing the work in the evening, with some beer at a public house in the parish, and the deceased it appeared had, in all upon that occasion, from a quart to three pints. After drinking it he left the public house to return to his master's farm at Drannack, with a cart drawn by two horses, of which he had charge. A fellow labourer accompanied him part of the way, and then left him, having occasion to go in another direction. The deceased at that time was riding on the front of the cart, and the horses going in a quick trot. He was not seen afterwards, but the horses having come home without him and at great speed, the master became apprehensive that something had happened to him, and therefore caused immediate search to be made, and at about a half mile from the master's house at Drannack, the deceased was found dead in the road with his head greatly injured from having (as was quite evident) been passed over by one of the wheels of the cart. Verdict, "accidental death." On the following day, in the parish of Phillack, on the body of John MILES, aged about 8 years, who was found dead on the old Hayle Railway, at the top of Angarrack Hill, on the preceding day. It appeared that the deceased with two of his brothers, had gone from their father's residence at Angarrack to a tenement on Connor Downs, for some mangel wurzel, taking with them two wheel barrows which the brothers trundled in turn. The deceased and one of his brothers brought the barrows in their way back to the top of the hill, when the deceased dropped the one that he had been rolling, and the third brother took it up and proceeded with it with the other brother towards their home, leaving the deceased behind, supposing that he would follow them. Shortly after, the deceased was found dead in the road, with the railway gate lying on his head, and it appeared that the crook to which the gate had hung, and in which upon examination an old flaw was apparent, had broken off. How the accident happened did not appear, it not having been seen, but the belief is that the deceased must have got on the gate to swing, and in moving it backward and forward the crook must have given way and the gate have fallen on him. Verdict, "accidental death." {end} |