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1853 Articles and Other Items



4 NOVEMBER 1853, Friday


LAUNCESTON. - On Tuesday last, the following were elected Councillors for the ensuing year:- Messrs. William HENDER, Joseph SPETTIGUE, William SPETTIGUE, and Thomas Symes EYRE.

SMUGGLING. - On Thursday the 27th ult., Edward PHILLIPS, of Hayle, was charged by Mr. Thomas FERRING?? Collector of H.M. Customs, before the Rev. U. TONKIN, with having illegally landed from a foreign vessel a quantity of cigars, and was fined in the sum of 15s.

PENZANCE QUARTER SESSIONS. - These sessions were held on Wednesday the 26th ult., by the Recorder, Mr. COLLIER, and the Mayor and borough magistrates. The only case for trial was an indictment against Andrew SCOTT, 19 and John LEY, 45, the former charged with stealing, on the 13th of September, four combs, the property of Joseph James LANYON, and the prisoner Ley was indicted for aiding and assisting. In other counts, both prisoners were charged with jointly stealing the combs, and with receiving knowing them to have been stolen. Scott was also charged with having been convicted of a felony in April, 1853, under the name of Matthew ROGERS. Mr. ROSCOELA? Appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Pascoe defended the prisoners. The witnesses were John CARBIS, a young about 15, who was employed in the shop of the prosecutor; Inspector OLDS; and William Henry WALLIS, police officer. The jury, however, considered the evidence unsatisfactory, and returned the prisoners not guilty.

ST AUSTELL PETTY SESSIONS. - At these sessions on Tuesday last, Mr. Joseph HART, butcher, was charged by Mr. ROEW, inspector of weights and measures, on the information of Mr. TAYLDER, painter, with selling by short measure. It appears the informer requested the defendant, as a favour, to sell him half-a-pint of foot oil. Not being in the habit of selling such an article, he had not a regular measure by him, and used a cup which he thought near the mark, and which, when tried, was found to be an exact measure. The decision was against the informer, who had all the expenses to pay.

LAUNCESTON PETTY SESSIONS. - At these sessions on Tuesday last, Mr. GIFFORD, inspector of weights and measures for No. 1 district of the county, summoned John LOWRY, grocer, &c., of Henwood, Linkinhorne, for having in his possession a 28lb. and other weights light, and otherwise illegal. The defendant was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 10s. and costs, and the weights were forfeited.

COMMITTALS FROM TRURO TO THE COUNTY GAOL. - The following is from a correspondent, who signs himself "A Rate-Payer;" - "Having repeatedly seen it reported in your valuable paper that two girls, names THOMAS, native of Redruth, had been frequently committed to Bodmin prison, I have been requested to contradict that statement. The fact is, they were once or twice in Redruth Union Workhouse, from another parish in the Union, but they no more belong to Redruth Parish in consequence, than they do to Bodmin parish because they have been repeatedly in Bodmin prison. The Redruth Union house is not even in Redruth parish, but in the parish of Illogan.

KILLING AND STEALING A GOAT. - On Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning last, a full-grown goat, belonging to Mr. John KNIGHT, of Truro, kept in a field on the leat, where the railway is constructing, was killed by some depredator and carried off, the blood being traceable in the direction of Frances Street.

ROBBERY. - On Monday last, a young woman of Carveth, in the parish of St. Austell, named Mary IVEY, was charged before Mr. E. COODE, jun., with stealing on the previous Saturday night, from the Holmbush Inn, a silver tea-spoon, juggs, and glasses, the property of Mr. George UGLOW, innkeeper. She was committed for trial at the next sessions, but bail was accepted for her appearance.

BURGLARY AT MARAZION. - On Thursday night or Friday morning last, the shop of Marazion, shoemaker, was broken into, when �50 and a gold and silver watch were stolen from a desk, but two gold watches in the same desk were fortunately overlooked by the thief. Superintendent ARMITAGE, of the West Cornwall Railway, passing through the place, had his attention called to the matter. He observed on the premises sufficient to convince him that the robbery had been committed by some one belonging to the shop, or accustomed to the place. There was a footmark on a piece of leather just under the window where entrance had been effected, outside on some earth were similar ones, and on the window frame was another. Suspicion fell upon Charles HILL, a journeyman of Mr. Thomas's. The officer went to his lodgings and after some difficulty found there a pair of cloth boots, which fitted the marks as well as the owner's foot. It was also found that the man had been several hours absent from his lodgings on the night of the robbery. He was taken into custody; ROUSE, a constable, locked him up, and the magistrates' clerk was sent for; but when the lock-up door was opened, Hill escaped and ran about a mile, but was at length captured in an orchard, and then taken before the justice and remanded. On Saturday the case was again gone into, and the prisoner was committed to Bodmin gaol to await his trial. Two constables, Rouse and HOSKIN, then conveyed him towards the railway station; the night was dark, and when near the Long Bridge, he escaped from them the second time. On Monday morning the constables were early on his track. They heard he was at Towednack, and went there. The occupier of the house said he was not in the place, but admission having been obtained, he jumped from the back window with only his shirt on, and again escaped from the constables, who certainly must be very dull men at their work. Hill is a young man about twenty two years of age, and is a native of Marazion.

ACCIDENT AT A MINE SHAFT. - On Friday night last, as a man called Josiah HARVEY, was going to his home at Creegbraws, he accidentally fell into an old shaft twenty fathoms deep. When found the next morning, it was discovered that he had sustained a very severe compound fracture of one leg, and was also much bruised by the fall, but he is now going on favourably. It is a duty to the public to see that old mine shafts should have a proper fence erected around them.

CORONERS' INQUESTS. - The following inquest has been held before Mr. john CARLYON, county coroner:- On Monday, in the parish of Kea, on the body of Jane MORCOM, aged four years, who died from injuries she received the preceding evening by catching her clothes on fire, during the temporary absence of her mother, who had gone out a few minutes before to get milk for the children's suppers. Verdict, "accidental death."

The following inquest has been held before Mr. HICHENS, county coroner: On the 27th ult., at Carnhell Green, in the parish of Gwinear, on the body of Thomas NOBLE, aged 26 years, whose death was occasioned by a blow received on the 26th from the fall of a piece of timber through one of the shafts called Falmouth shaft, of Great Wheal Alfred mine, in Phillack, whilst in course of being let down for use therein. The deceased and his comrade were at the time about four fathoms under the 116 fathoms level, cutting a "hitch" as it is termed, in the side of the shaft, to take the end of the timber, when the piece in its fall struck the deceased on the back part of his head. The blow rendered him speechless and apparently senseless, in which state he continued to the time of his death on the morning of the following day. Verdict, "accidental death."

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BILKEY. - Mr. Robert Bilkey, of Treveneth?, in the parish of Paul, being about to leave that parish after a residence of ten years, about twenty of his friends invited him to a dinner at the Ship Inn, Mousehole, on Friday last, and presented him, as a testimonial of their respect, with a handsome chased silver snuff-box, with the following inscription:- "Presented to Mr. Robert Bilkey, by the parishioners of Paul, as a mark of their esteem for his skill as a farmer, and his integrity as a parishioner, during a residence of ten years among them. October 28th, 1853." - It is almost needless to add that the party passed a very pleasant evening, and expressed their best wishes for Mr. Bilkey's success in his new farm, Tremenheere, in Ludgvan.

ROYAL COLLAGE OF SURGEONS. - Among the gentlemen who have undergone the necessary examinations for the diploma, and were admitted members of the College at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 28th ult., we observe the name of Mr. Frederick TRESTRAIL BOND, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, Bombay, and son of Mr. W.H. BOND, Secretary of the Cornwall Railway Company.

MERCANTILE MARINE BOARD. - The following obtained certificates of competency, at the examination at Plymouth, on the 27th ult.:- Master - George ELLERY, Falmouth. Only mates - Henry ASHFORD, Scilly; Robert Nicholas POMEROY, Gorran Haven.

ST AUSTELL. - On Tuesday morning last, the remains of the lamented Lady SAWLE of Penrice, were committed to the family vault in the parish church of St. Austell; the tradesman of the town testifying their respect by keeping their shops closed during the ceremony.


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THE BISHOP OF NATAL. - We understand that the Rev. Dr. COLENSO, Bishop Designate of Natal is expected to preach in Truro and at Kenwyn on Sunday next. The object of his visit we believe is to raise funds in connection with the important diocese to which he has been appointed. His sermon in the morning we believe will be at St. Mary's; in the afternoon at Kenwyn; and in the evening at St. John's.

NARROW ESCAPE. - On Friday afternoon last, as Mr. Richard MARTYN, of Carthew, in the parish of St. Austell, was entering the town in his gig, the horse (which was a young one and was under the management of TREMAYNE, who was breaking it in) suddenly took fright at something and made off at full speed. Tremayne who saw the danger requested Mr. Martyn to get out of the gig, which he did just before it came in contact with something, by which means the gig was broken and the horse came into the town with part of it at his heels, and when near the General Wolfe Inn, a girl with a child in her arms, was caught in her clothes and dragged along several years when the horse fell. The girl received a few bruises in her side, but was not seriously injured. Had the animal continued its course through the town, as it happened to be market day, it is impossible to tell what damage might have been done.

THE LATE LADY SAWLE. - The funeral services were used in St. Austell church on Sunday last, for the late lamented Lady Graves Sawle. Form many years past, Lady Sawle's health has incapacitated her from going about in person "doing good," but she did not omit to supply others with means, and those profusely, to relieve the wants and necessities of the poor.

DONATIONS FROM AUSTRALIA. - The sum of three pounds has been received from Australia, towards the funds of a Sunday School at Pendoggett, in the parish of St. Kew. The donors are three females, who were teachers in the school four years ago, and who left this country with their father, Mr. John ARTHUR, and went to Australia, where he is stated to have been very fortunate.

DISASTER AT SEA. - On Friday the 4th instant, when about four or five leagues from Scilly, the schooner "Mystery" of St. Ives, from Messina for London, was run into by a brig, supposed to be a Frenchman. The brig was running with studding sails out; wind, E. The "Mystery's" larboard bow is stove very badly. Bulwarks, stanchions, and fore and main shrouds almost entirely gone.

The "Elizabeth" of Brixham put into St. Ives to stop a leak in the starboard bow, - leak stopped and proceeded.

ARNALL v. MAYNE and TRUSCOTT. - Mr. HOCKIN for plaintiff, and Mr. STOKES for defendants. Plaintiff is a timber merchant living at Redruth and defendants are ship-builders at Falmouth. In the latter part of October 1852, plaintiff and Mr. Mayne, one of the defendants, met by appointment and went to Lostwithiel, where plaintiff had a quantity of oak timber for sale. Defendant selected a quantity which he wished to purchase, and it was afterwards sent in a small vessel to defendant's yard at Falmouth. This first cargo was paid for, but a second cargo it appeared, was also sent, and the payment for this was the point in dispute, and the subject of the present action. With regard to the terms on which the second cargo was sent, the evidence was very conflicting, the witnesses being the parties to the suit. The charge by plaintiff was 1s. 10 � d. per foot for the large timber, and 1s. 6d. per foot for the small. Of the second cargo a portion had been sent back to the plaintiff's stores at Devoran, he having agreed to take it back as too small for defendant's use. About �6 worth of the second cargo had been bought by plaintiff of Mr. PARKYN, of Lostwithiel, in order to supply defendants. The case lasted some hours, the evidence in some points being very contradictory. Verdict for plaintiff for �44. 15s. 8 � d.

STANNARIES COURT. - This court was opened at Truro on Saturday last, when the following cases were entered, forty small debts, thirteen motions, and twenty-five equity cases. The following motions were made:-

NOELL v. HERRON. - Great Wheal Alfred. Mr. STOKES made a similar motion for payment of �75. 12s. 3d., amount of calls due from defendant in this mine. Granted.

LEY and OTHERS, v. CARTHEW. - Hewas Consols. Mr. STOKES appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. HOCKIN for the defendant. This was a petition for a general account, under which the plaintiffs sought to recover from the defendant, the sum of �2,000 odd. Mr. CHILCOTT moved for an order on behalf of Thomas COLLIVER, one of the plaintiffs, to strike his name out of the petition. Mr. Chilcott read an affidavit of Mr. Colliver, who stated that his name was placed on the petition without his sanction or authority; and as he thought the matters in dispute were settled, he objected to have his name used. Mr. Stokes showed cause, and argued that as Mr. Colliver had notice of the resolution of the adventurers, which authorised the filing of the petition against Mr. Carthew, he must be taken to have acquiesced in the proceedings, and could not now say that his name was used without his authority. Mr. Chilcott having replied, his Honor intimated that he would consider the point, and give judgment at the sitting of the court on Monday.

At the opening of the court on Monday his Honor gave judgment on the motion, refusing to strike out Mr. Colliver's name, as he must be taken to have acquiesced; and directing the plaintiffs to indemnify him against all costs, and to relinquish any proceeds of the suit in case any balance should appear to be due to him.

TREGONEY, CORNWALL. - To be sold by private contract, the fee-simple and inheritance of and in nineteen substantially-built cottages situate at Tregoney, in the county of Cornwall. For further particulars, apply to Messrs. SIMMONS and COCK, Solicitors, Truro. Dated Truro, November 8, 1853.

PENZANCE. - On Wednesday last, Mr. Samuel HIGGS was elected Mayor of this borough for the ensuing year.

ST. IVES. - On Wednesday last, Mr. John TREMEARNE was re-elected Mayor for the ensuing year. Mr. JEACOCKE, Mr. T. YOUNG, Mr. John STEPHENS, and Mr. William Worth KEMPTHORNE, have been elected Town Councillors.

BODMIN. - On Wednesday last, Mr. John Cole GROSE, was elected Mayor of this borough for the ensuing year; and Mr. J.B. COLLINS and Mr. William SARGEANT were elected Aldermen.

LISKEARD. - Mr. Peter CLYMO, was elected Mayor of this place on Wednesday last.

COMMITTAL. - On Saturday last, a man called William NINNIS, was committed by Mr. E. COODE, jun., to take his trial for stealing apples from Mr. George ANDREW, of Trenance, in the parish of St. Austell.

FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Sunday last as some children were playing on the bank of the river at Lowertown in the parish of Wendron, one of them about six years of age, son of Mr. J. JEFFERY in attempting to cross a plank which had been thrown over the stream fell into the water and was carried down the river. His body was discovered about a quarter of a mile below, after half an hour's search, but life was quite extinct.


18 NOVEMBER 1853, Friday


SANITARY MEASURES AT TRURO. - The sanitary committee appointed some time ago, are continuing their operations vigorously. Public drains have been for some time in course of construction in Daniell Street, Infirmary Hill, George Street, John Street, (Ferris Town), and in Andrew Place; and several thousand feet of public drainage have been constructed. The committee have also come to a unanimous resolution to require all parties, without reservation, who have private drains, to have communications with the main sewers. It is confidently hoped that these measures, if strictly carried out, will have a permanent good effect upon the future health of the town.

LAUNCESTON COUNTY COURT. - The following was tried by jury:- WESTLAKE v. STRIKE. This action was brought by plaintiff to recover the sum of �20, the value of a mare. It appeared that on the 22nd of October, defendant was returning from Launceston market with a horse and cart, driving furiously down a hill, between Launceston and St. Thomas's Bridge, when he came in contact with a mare belonging to the plaintiff, which was working in plaintiff's wagon. The violence of the shock was such that the shaft of defendant's cart entered the thigh of plaintiff's mare to the depth of eight inches, as stated by Mr. PHILP, the veterinary surgeon, and the mare died in a few days. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, damages �17. 8s. 6d. This case occupied the court several hours.

REDRUTH COUNTY COURT. - At this court Thomas MILLS, jun., was committed to Bodmin prison for three weeks for refusing to obey the order of the court to pay �5, including costs for breaking the collar-bone of Mr. James HANCOCK, of Redruth, and not liquidating the expenses consequent on the fracture. Mills is aged 27 years, unmarried, and is possessed of ample funds, but refuses to abide by his agreement to pay Hancock's costs. The debt and costs exceed �7.

SHEEP STEALING. - On the night of Monday last, a fat wether sheep was stolen from a field belonging to Mr. William HUDDY, of Nansavallan, in the parish of Kea. The sheep was killed, and the head and entrails left in the field.

TRURO POLICE. - On Saturday last, Hugh BRAILEY, a navvy working at Polperro tunnel, was charged with violently assaulting Mary Ann CHENOWETH, with striking her in the face, and kicking her in different parts of her body. The evidence was to have been heard on Monday, but some of the navvies, it was stated, gave the woman money to keep out of the way, and as she did not appear, the case was dismissed.

Frederick DWYER, alias TREWARE, a mason working at the Polperro tunnel was charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance, at half-past one on Sunday morning, at his lodging-house in Calenick Street, kept by W. CHALLIS, cordwainer. It being his first offence, he was discharged on paying expenses.

On Monday Charles FOSTER, a navy and lodging house keeper in Calenick Street was charged with assaulting and beating Elizabeth TREDGWATER, wife of Reuben Tredgwater. The accused party, on paying expenses was allowed to settle the matter out of court. On Tuesday last, William COURTENAY was charged with being drunk and wilfully damaging several articles of wearing apparel, the property of Mary BRIGHT and Mary Ann COOKMAN, of St. Austell Street. He was convicted and ordered to pay the damage, 1s. 6d. in each case, besides expenses, or in default to be committed for two months. The money was paid.

NARROW ESCAPE. - We gave an account last week of an accident to a gig belonging to Mr. Richard MARTYN, of Carthew, in the parish of St. Austell, the horse (under the management of TREMAYNE who was breaking it in,) having taken fright, and ran off at full speed. We are requested to add that not the least blame is attached to Tremayne, who would no doubt have brought the horse up before heentered St. Austell, if the splash board had not been broken, and Tremayne thrown out, of course losing all control over the animal.

FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Tuesday a melancholy accident occurred at Antron, in the parish of Sithney, to a little boy one year and ten months old, son of Mr. Peter WILLIAMS, jun. The child had gone out of the house unobserved, and was not missed until he was found dead under a gate. It appears that he had been in the habit of climbing on the bar of a gate and swinging to and fro, and it is supposed that seeing this gate, which had been unhung and placed against some bushes in nearly a perpendicular position, he had got on it and caused it to overbalance, the great weight on the chest producing suffocation.

On Friday last, at Pool, in the parish of Illogan, on the body of Mary, the wife of Capt. John TONKIN at that place, aged 48 years. The deceased had been to chapel on Sunday evening, and had gone to bed apparently in her usual health, but in the course of the night, she was taken suddenly ill, and before a neighbour could arrive, or any medical attendance could be had, she died. Mr. RICHARDS, surgeon, of Redruth, being of opinion that she had died from disease of the heart, the jury returned a verdict to that effect.

SAILING OF THE "MARCO POLO." - Shortly after two o'clock on Friday the well known emigrant ship "March Polo" sailed for Australia, this time under the command of Captain McDONNELL, late chief officer. The scene of her departure was a most exciting one, and amid the music of the band on board, the firing of cannon, and the cheers of crowds of spectators, she was towed gracefully down the river by two steam tugs, one of which will perhaps accompany her as far as Cork. Mr. BAINES, the managing owner, and several other gentlemen went out in her a portion of the voyage down the Channel. The "Marco Polo" carried as much cargo as she had space for, about 700 souls, and a vast quantity of letters and newspapers.

THE LABOUR MARKET IN MELBOURNE. - The following is from the circular of J. McCORMICK and SONS, Registry Office, Melbourne, for the week ending 16th of July, 1853, received by Messrs. JAMES BAINES and CO., owners of the Liverpool "Black Ball" Line of Australian Packets:- Married couples (without family) per annum with rations, �70 to �100; ditto, with family, �60 to �90; shepherds, per annum, �35 to �40; hutkeepers, per annum, �32 to �35; general useful servants, with rations, per annum, �70 to �75; bullock drivers, with rations, �2. 10s. to �3 per week, on farms; bullock drivers, for the roads, per week, �2. 10s. to �3. 10s.; gardeners, per annum, with rations, �70 to �80; cooks, male, �2 to �4 per week; waiters, per week, from 20s. to 30s.; grooms, from �60 to �70 per annum; carpenters, good house, town work, per day, 20s. to 25s.; masons, 25s. to 30s. per day; wood splitters and fencers, 15s. a day, with rations; stock-keepers, ditto, �55 to �75; blacksmiths accustomed to country work, and to horse-shoeing, from 20s. to 25s. per day; good farm labourers, weekly, �1. 5s. to �1. 15s. with rations; ploughmen, 30s. to 40s. per week, with rations; labourers on the roads, 10s. a day, with wood, water and tent accommodation; seamen, for London, for the run home, �45 to �50; seamen for Calcutta, for the run, �40 to �45; seamen for Callao, �40; coasting, �9 to �10 per month. Female servants - thorough servants, per annum, �25 to �35; housemaids, ditto, �20 to �30; laundresses, ditto, �30 to �40; nursemaids, ditto, �20 to �26; cooks, ditto, �35 to �50. In cases where rations are supplied, they consist of 10 lbs. flour, 10 lbs. meat, 2 lbs. sugar, � lb. tea weekly each person, with salt, &c., as required. These rations are generally found to be more than sufficient.


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RAPID INCREASE OF POPULATION. - On Tuesday, the wife of Henry PEARCE, a miner of Ludgvan, gave birth to two daughters and a son, all alive and well. Mrs. Pearce has on former occasions given birth to twins making altogether several children in three births.

CAUTION TO SCHOOLMASTERS. - On Monday last, Mr. STEPHENS, schoolmaster of the Liskeard Union, was summoned before the magistrates for having flogged a boy belonging to the school. It appeared from the evidence given, that the boys were sent to bed at the usual time, and shortly after, the defendant hearing a noise, went up, taking with him a gutta percha whip, which he used rather freely about one of the boys, leaving marks wherever it struck. The mother of that boy summoned the defendant, and the case being clearly proved, he was fined 5s. and expenses. It is hoped this will be a lesson to those schoolmasters who are in the habit of beating boys, when a kind word would answer the same purpose.

BEGGING IMPOSTORS. - The public will do well to be on their guard against a number of vagrants patrolling the county, particularly the western part, with forged petitions purporting to be signed by influential inhabitants of Penzance, St. Ives, &c., which are headed with accounts of the loss of vessels, &c. Two or three have been at Falmouth, and have had their petitions taken from them, nearly all the names being known to be forgeries. One of the beggars is going about under the name of ROWE, and his petition is signed with the name of Mr. BAZELEY, mayor of St. Ives. Others give their names as Jones or Williams, and state that through misfortunes they have been deprived of their living.

RESULTS OF THE CENSUS OF 1851. Population, &c., of Cornwall. - A pamphlet has been published, of which the author is Mr. Edward CHESHIRE, of the Statistical Society, containing the results of the census of Great Britain in 1851, with a description of the machinery and processes employed to obtain the returns, and an appendix with a variety of tabular matter connected with the census. An advertisement of the pamphlet referred to, appears in another column. It is an excellent digest of the results of the census, condensed from the voluminous folios recently issued from the Census Office, and of course the labour involved in such a condensation must have been very great. There are also added in this pamphlet, some curious and original calculations to illustrate the subject; and it is stated that her Majesty's Treasury consider the tables of reference in the appendix so useful in their condensed form, that they have issued an order to supply with copies the various government departments at home and in the colonies; consequently this little work has already had a circulation of four thousand in about four weeks. We find it unnecessary to give many extracts from the pamphlet, as the scope of its contents was presented in abstract of a paper which we recently published, read before the British Association at its last meeting. We therefore confine ourselves to a statement of returns in reference to Cornwall and Devon, taken on the 30th of March, 1851.

Cornwall 171,636 Males, 183,922 Females, Total 355,558.

The following was the population and number of inhabited houses of towns in this county in 1851. (Note - The letter M. denotes municipal limits; P. parliamentary limits; and M & P. that the municipal and parliamentary limits are the same.)

Bodmin, Population - M. 4,327, P. 6,337. Inhabited Houses - M. 722, P. 1,103

Camborne, Population - 6,547. Inhabited Houses - 1,174.

Falmouth, Population - M. 4,953. Inhabited Houses - 600.

Helston, Population - M.3,355, P. 7,328. Inhabited Houses - M. 672, P. 1,459.

Launceston, Population - M. 3,397, P. 6,005. Inhabited Houses - M. 563, P. 1,051.

Liskeard, Population - M. 4,386, P. 6,204. Inhabited Houses - M. 623, P. 965.

Penryn, Population - M. 3,959. Inhabited Houses - M. 779.

Penryn & Falmouth - P. 13,656. Inhabited Houses - P. 2,143.

Penzance, M. 9,214. Inhabited Houses - M. 1,878.

Redruth, Population - 7, 995. Inhabited Houses - 1,232.

St Austell, Population - 3,565. Inhabited Houses - 697.

St Ives, Population - M. 6,525, P. 3,872. Inhabited Houses - M. 1,403, P. 2,003.

Truro, Population - M. & P. 10,733. Inhabited Houses M. & P. 2,195.

Some of the towns of minor population are omitted in the condensed form of the tables published. The number of persons to a square mile in Cornwall was 269. The increase of population in Cornwall during the last fifty years was eighty-four per cent. The number of inhabited houses to a square mile in Cornwall in 1851, was 60. The average number of persons to a house in Cornwall was 5.2.

REGISTRAR GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURNS. - The Registrar General's returns for the quarter ending September 30th included - In Cornwall, the deaths during the past quarter have been 1431; in the same quarter of 1852 they were 1724. The births in the past quarter have been 2836; in the corresponding quarter of last year they were 2809. The district registrars report deaths of soldiers' children at Pendennis Castle, from scarlatina, stating that there is an offensive effluvium from a drain near the door of the barracks; also deaths above the average at Crowan, including one case of English cholera; also that scarlatina and hoping cough have been prevalent in the Redruth and Camborne districts; and that in the Marazion district sanatory arrangements are very much required, dung piles being allowed to remain near the premises of nearly every house in the district.

TRURO POLICE. - On Tuesday last, Joseph WILLIAMS, miner, of Perranwell, was charged with being drunk and assaulting his father, and also with assaulting police constable PRATER, while in the execution of his duty. Williams and his father were at Truro fair on Monday, and bought a horse between them. They were afterwards drinking at a public house in Kenwyn Street, till a late hour and when about to go home, a dispute arose as to which should ride the horse, the father insisting that he ought to ride because he was an old man. After some altercation, the son struck his father several times, and was given in custody to the policeman, whom he struck and kicked on his way to the station-house. The father not appearing against him, the first charge of assault was dismissed; but for assaulting the policeman he was fined 5s. and costs, or to be committed for twenty-one days to hard labourer.

ST AUSTELL POLICE. - On Saturday last, a mason of St. Austell, named John CRABB, was charged with ill treatment of his wife, Elizabeth Crabb, and was bound to keep the peace towards her for three months.

HOUSE-BREAKING AT CAMELFORD. - On Sunday evening last, while the family of Mr. W.L. HENWOOD, draper, &c., were at chapel, some thief or thieves entered the house by the back door with a false key, and made their way to the shop, which they entered also by means of false keys. They directed their course to Mr. Henwood's office and broke open the desk, but in their search overlooked ten pounds' worth of silver, which was at the further end of the desk. They then went up stairs, and broke open several boxes and a drawer, no doubt in search of the case box, but were disappointed of their booty. They only succeeded in taking 26s. from a dressing case belonging to one of the assistants. There is as yet no clue to the parties.

INSOLVENCY OF A BREAD COMPANY'S AGENT. Committal for Four Months. - Re: Thomas SEARLE, Antony, Cornwall. This insolvent, who came up in custody had four several years acted as agent to the Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport bread and flour company. He was supported by Mr. LAIDMAN, and opposed, on the part of that company, by Mr. STOGDON, on the ground of his having fraudulently contracted a debt with them. The debts were set down in the schedule at �84. 17s. 2d.; and the credit at �89. 2s. 1 � d. In answer to Mr. Stogdon, the insolvent stated that in 1846 he applied by letter to the Bread Company for permission to open a district shop in Antony, alleging that the house in which he resided was his own property. He admitted, however, that a year previously to that date, in 1845, he had sold the premises to his daughter, Mrs. HOUNDY?, for �49, the deed being prepared by Mr. HERRING, solicitor, in whose presence the money was paid. At the same time also the furniture in the house was sold to her. Since that period, and at the time when he stated in his letter that the property belonged to him, he had rented it as a tenant paying �12 a year together with the rates and taxes. He was in the habit of paying the rent quarterly, and always had a receipt from his daughter for the money. He now produced four of these receipts. (On these documents being handed to Mr. Stogdon, that gentlemen pointed out to the Judge that there were two receipts for Midsummer, 1853).

When the accounts between himself and the company were balanced in September, 1852, he expected they would have been in his favour, but he found the contrary to be the case, and an execution was issued against him from the County Court, when all his tools and some of his daughter's furniture were sold. He estimated his claim on the company for allowances and other things at �60, which amount he had entered on the schedule.

Mr. Horatio PICHARD, the secretary to the Bread Company, stated most positively, that credit was given to the insolvent on the faith of the assertion in his letter that the premises in which he resided were his own. The accounts were settled fortnightly, but the insolvent did not bring enough money each time, and so they gradually got into arrear, until when the company stopped the supply of bread, he owed them �26.

The Judge, who had minutely examined the receipts, said the insolvent would be much deceived if he really wished him to believe that they were all given at the time they bore date. The four which had been handed to him, appeared to have been cut from one piece of paper. In two of them a nick on one corresponded with a nick on the other; and a portion of the stamp mark on the one corresponded exactly with the remaining portion on the other. It was therefore, preposterous for a man to say they were given at different times; and he only alluded to it to remark that he did not believe a work which the insolvent had uttered. [Sorry, but there isn't any more on this case. ih




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