HAPPY NEW YEAR, and hope all your trees grow and you find some of your ancestors from our transcriptions, find out what life was like 'way back then,' read some of their letters home, the places they emigrated to and how they fared. West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. 8th January, 1848. TRIALS OF PRISONERS - ELIZA CHEEVE, 19, pleaded guilty of stealing a silk shawl, on the 27th December, the property of EDWARD BENNETT. She also pleaded guilty of stealing at St. Austell on the 28th December, a pewter pint, the property of ROBERT DUNN. SUSAN THOMAS, 30, pleaded guilty of stealing at Liskeard, on the 6th November, two waistcoat pieces and a piece of cloth, the property of JAMES SOWDEN. She was also charged with stealing five plaid scarfs and a dress, the property of WILLIAM BARRETT, at Liskeard; but on this indictment no evidence was offered. FRANCES GLANVELL, 21, pleaded guilty of stealing (after a former conviction) a box, a half-crown, four shillings and six sixpences, on the 6th November, at Illogan, the property of JOHN THOMAS. JOHN CLARK, 47, gardener, pleaded guilty of embezzling the sum of GBP8. 18s. 8d., the property of his master, WILLIAM HENRY POLE CAREW, at Antony, on the 2nd of September last. SUSAN BLIGHT, a young married woman on bail, was charged with stealing from JAMES SAMPSON, a miner of St. Agnes, on the 21st of November, a number of current coin of the realm, value, GBP27, and also an American five cent. piece, the property of the said JAMES SAMPSON. Mr. STOKES conducted the prosecution; Mr. SHILSON the defence. JAMES SAMPSON, the prosecutor, stated that the prisoner was his nearest neighbour. In November last, he discovered that his chest, in which he had kept money locked up, had been broken open, and about GBP27 worth of gold and silver coins, one of which was an American five cent. piece, had been stolen. In the chest in which he kept his money, had also been a piece of paper of peculiar sort. NICHOLAS BRYANT, constable of St. Agnes, about seven o'clock in the morning of the 26th November, went with a search warrant to prisoner's house, in company with another constable. She said they were at liberty to search every part of the house. Shortly after they entered she went up stairs to dress her children. While she was up stairs, I searched one cupboard downstairs, and while doing so, I heard the noise of something falling into the other cupboard; I ran up stairs into the room were prisoner was; she was standing in the place where money had fallen into the cupboard below; she turned round as I came up and let fall a considerable lot of money on the floor, and she was rolling in her hand a piece of wet paper. I picked up from the floor of the room and the stairs, GBP5. 13s. I then went down stairs, and in the cupboard where I had heard something fall, I found GBP5. 4s. Both these sums were in sovereigns and silver. I then went up stairs with two females to search the prisoner, and in the pockets of her dress found three or four half-pence and an American silver coin. James Sampson recalled, identified the American coin, by a punch-hole in it. On Cross-Examination, he said he had about GBP40 in the box altogether. I have a wife and seven children, the eldest boy being about sixteen; the box is kept in the room in which I and my family sleep. I had not counted my money in my chest for a year and half or more; but on the 13th of November I put in 4 1/2 sovereigns, and then saw other gold and silver there. RICHARD HOOPER, a parish constable of St. Agnes, who accompanied Bryant on the search, corroborated his evidence. He added that while he was down stairs, a woman brought down the chamber utensil; he followed her to see it emptied, and saw that it contained a purse, and 28s. 4d. After that he went up stairs and found two sovereigns more on the floor. Cross-Examined. It was Bryant who told the prisoner to go up stairs and dress the children, who had followed her down, naked. For the defence, Mr. Shilson suggested that the evidence for the prosecution left it uncertain whether or not he had lost any money; but, assuming that he had, there was no evidence that the prisoner had ever been in prosecutor's house or knew anything about it; while it was proved that the box was kept under the bed in the room in which the prosecutor and all his family slept. Another fact for the defence was that though the prosecutor said he lost about GBP27, and that there was about GBP40 in the box, only GBP14. 5s. had been found in the prisoner's possession; while no evidence had been given to account for the remainder, or to show that it had been used by her. Mr. Shilson disputed the evidence of identity of the American coin; and suggested that the money she was apparently intending to secrete was about GBP14, which she possessed of her own, her husband being a miner, and which she was fearful of losing, on the arrival of the constables. If the money had been the prosecutor's, she could have no object in secreting it, as it was not capable of being identified; she would rather have directed her attention to the secreting of the American coin. In summing up, the Chairman put several points in favour of the prisoner, and from her examination before the magistrates said she stated she had saved up GBP14, and that when the constables came she was afraid of losing it, and was taking means of concealment when they came into her room; but on the other hand, it was unfavourable to her case that she made no mention of this when the house was searched. The Chairman further remarked that it was possible the robbery may have been committed by her husband, who was not before the court. - Verdict, Not Guilty. KITTING - JAMES TEAGUE, THOMAS COCK, and FRANCIS TEAGUE, young miners, were charged with stealing 20 cwt. of copper ore, from the Great South Tolgus mine at Redruth, on the 11th of September, the property of JOHN DAW and others, adventurers. Mr. STOKES conducted the prosecution; Mr. SHILSON the defence. Mr. Stokes opened the following case for the prosecution. The charge was of the offence commonly called "kitting" - the removing of ores in a mine for the purpose of increasing the wages payable on tribute to the parties charged. Exhibiting plans to the court and jury, Mr. Stokes stated that in the 70 fathoms level of this mine there were two pitches - one called Middletons or Cock's pitch, in which the prisoner Cock worked; and the other, on the other side of the shaft, called Davey's pitch, in which the two other prisoners worked. Middleton, who had worked with Cock in Middleton's pitch, had left the country and was believed to be in Australia. At the July setting for two months, Cock and Middleton took their pitch at 10s. in the pound, and Davey's pitch was taken by Davey and Teague at 12s. in the pound - high tributes, the ore being poor. Davey's pitch was an entirely new one; but Cock's or Middleton's had been worked before. In September, those two pairs of men claimed to have broken in their several pitches a very considerable quantity of very rich ore - more than 7 tons in Davey's pitch, and more than 6 1/2 in Middleton's pitch. Consequently, a large sum of money was paid to the prisoners, in respect of subsist and tribute; the captains at that time, though having their suspicions, having no such evidence as would warrant their withholding payment. The case against the prisoners would very much depend on the evidence of two men, named RICHARDS and PENGELLY, who were employed as skip-fillers in the 70 fathoms level; and they would state that they saw the three prisoners, in September, take the rich ore from the adventurers' piles, near the stopes, worked at tutwork, and carry it away to their own piles, in barrows, in their shirts and pockets, and by other means. The quantity charged to have been thus taken was very large indeed; it would be proved that the ground said to have been "spent" in Davey's pitch would not contain the dressed ore contained in Teague and Davey's pile, and on which they claimed and received payment. Proof of this kind could not be offered in respect of the pitch worked by Cock and Middleton; but it would be shown that the ores in both of the prisoner's pitches differed in colour as well as quality from the ores at the adventurers' stopes; and ores from the various places mentioned would be submitted to the jury. Evidence in the case was then given. The first witness called was Capt. JOHN DAW, manager of Great South Tolgus mine. In the course of his evidence, he stated that in September, at the close of their two months' take, Davey and Teague claimed to have broken in their pitch, 7 tons 6 cwt. 2 qrs. dry weight, which sold at GBP7. 12s. per ton; and the tribute paid to them after deducting for costs, was GBP28. 14s. 4d. Middleton and Cock claimed for 6 tons 12 cwt. 3 qrs. of ore, dry weight, which sold at GBP7. 12s. per ton; and the tribute paid to them after deducting for costs, was GBP28. 14s. 4d. Middleton and Cock claimed for 6 tons 12 cwt. 3 qrs. of ore, dry weight, which sold at GBP5. 1s. per ton; and they were paid a net tribute of GBP12. 10s. 6d. The produce of the ore claimed by Davey and Teague was 7 5/8 - a high produce. The produce of the ore claimed as from the other pitch was 5 1/2 a good produce. The ore at the stopes was a rich yellow ore, which in some places made a produce nine or ten, and in other places a produce of fifteen - a very high produce. On the prisoners' piles he saw rich yellow ore, which he was satisfied came from the stope4s in the 70-fathoms level, and could not have been broken in the prisoners' pitches. Evidence was also given by JOSEPH RICHARDS and THOMAS PENGELLY, skip-fillers, and by Captain JOSEPH JEWELL, managing agent of East Wheal Tolgus. A portion of the evidence of Captain Jewell was that on his measuring the ground which had been broken in Davey's pitch, he made it 82 1/2 cubic feet, which space could not possibly contain seven tons of dressed ore, irrespective of attle. The usual calculation was that about twenty cubic feet of dressed ore made a ton weight. Samples of ores were produced from the adventurers stopes, and from Middleton's and Davey's pitches. Mr. Shilson ably addressed the jury for the defence; and the Chairman summed up carefully, and in the course of doing so, strongly urged that, in cases of kitting, when samples of ore were taken from the levels or piles, this should be done in the presence of the accused or suspected parties; which had not been done in the present case. The Jury, after nearly half an hour's conference in their box, retired for further consultation, and after an absence of nearly an hour, they returned into court, with a verdict finding all three prisoners Guilty. WILLIAM HENRY PARNELL was charged with stealing thirty-six bushels of barley, the property of JOHN HAWKEN, jun. Mr. G. B. COLLINS conducted the prosecution; Mr. STOKES the defence. In this case, both the prosecutor and the prisoner were respectable merchants of Wadebridge, engaged in the purchase and shipment of corn. After the examination of several witnesses for the prosecution, the Chairman, on the facts elicited, stopped the case and directed a verdict of Acquittal, on the ground that there seemed to have been a dispute as to the purchase of some barley, but that clearly there was no felony. We were informed that the clergyman of St. Breock and many respectable merchants and other inhabitants of Wadebridge were waiting in court to give the prisoner an excellent character, had he been called for defence; they would have stated, we understand, that in his commercial transactions he had never been found other than honest and upright. Mr. LETHBRIDGE here retired from the chair, which was occupied, during the remainder of the sitting, by JOHN JOPE ROGERS, Esq. PAUL GLAZER, 39, hawker, was indicted for uttering at St. Agnes, on the 6th of November, a counterfeit half-crown to ELIZABETH TERRELL; a counterfeit crown to JOHN TREDINNICK; and a counterfeit half-crown to ANN LANGWORTHY; these parties being shop keepers. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner by numerous witnesses, some of whom he addressed ad cross-examined with an almost religious solemnity of voice and manner, and, in one instance, with an impressive adjuration not to think of deceiving the One above. The evidence against him was closed by his own statement before the committing magistrate at Truro, in which he acknowledged having passed the counterfeit coins, as charged, adding that he bought the so-called half-crowns at sixpence each, and the counterfeit crown for tenpence. Verdict Guilty. WILLIAM BARRETT, 20, horsetrainer, was found guilty of stealing, on the 16th November last, at Bodwen[?] in the parish of Lanlivery, a beaver hat and a chip hat, the property of Mr. JOHN CORY. A prior conviction was proved against him at the assizes in July, 1853[?] when he was sentenced to seven years transportation. HENRY DAY, 30 plumber, was charged with stealing, at Tregothnan, two pieces of lead and one piece of iron pipe, the property of the Right Honourable EVELYN, Viscount Falmouth. Mr. CHILDS conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. SHILSON. Evidence in the case was given by JOHN MAC LEAN, plumber and brazier, of Truro (the prisoner's employer at the time of the felony); WILLIAM HENRY RANDALL, an apprentice to Mr. Mac Lean; WILLIAM JOSEPH NASH, superintendent of police at Truro; WILLIAM WOOLCOCK, serjeant of police at Truro; HENRY BAKER, shoemaker, who had been in custody on a charge of feloniously received lead and iron from the prisoner, but was now admitted as Queen's evidence against him; and HENRY IVEY, watchmaker and whitesmith of Truro. Evidence in favour of prisoner's previous character, from boyhood, was given by WILLIAM PLYMING of Truro, formerly a contractor for the conveyance of prisoners; and it was stated that JOSEPH TRENERRY of Truro had waited until a late hour of the day for the purpose of giving similar testimony. Verdict, Guilty. There was another indictment against the prisoner charging him with stealing lead, the property of Mr. Mac Lean; but on this indictment no evidence was offered. Bills against the following prisoners were ignored:- MATTHEW STEPHENS; THOMAS TRATHEN; JOHN MINERS, JAMES MATTHEWS and JOSEPH SECCOMBE. SOLOMON MARTIN, 24, labourer, was indicted for stealing a donkey, the property for JOHN RICHARDS, on the 31st of October. Mr. COMMINS for the prosecution, and Mr. CHILDS for the defence. Prosecutor, who lives in Wendron, had a donkey called "Billy," which used to follow him. He turned the donkey on the common, and missed him for some time, but on the 6th of November found the animal at Lanner, in Gwennap, and on calling him, the donkey at once came to his master. ELEANOR KNEEBONE, at Lanner, had purchased the donkey of the prisoner. The defence was, that the prisoner found the donkey straying and could not discover the owner. JOHN THOMAS, constable at Ponsanooth, and two farmers of Stithians gave the prisoner a good character. Verdict, Guilty. SARAH MOYLE, and HARRIET MOYLE, 18, a tailoress, mother and daughter, were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of THOMAS BROWN, at Penryn, and stealing therefrom a silver watch, guard-chain and keys, a purse and sovereign. Another count charged larceny, and a third count, receiving knowing to have been stolen. Mr. JENKINS conducted the prosecution, and called as witnesses Mrs. ELIZABETH BROWN, wife of prosecutor, her sister JANE PEARCE, and police-constable WHITE. The prisoners were undefended. It appeared that on Sunday afternoon, the 8th of November, one of the prisoners, Harriet Moyle, who was a neighbour of prosecutor, came into Mrs. Brown's house at Penryn, and whilst there, Mrs. Brown took out of her pocket a bead purse containing a sovereign. Harriet Moyle asked to see it, and after looking at the purse, returned it to Mrs. Brown, who placed it in a cupboard. About half-past three, they both left the house, and the watch was then hanging over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Brown locked the door and took the key with her. The window had been fastened in the morning, but Mrs. Brown said, whilst she was up-stairs, Harriet Moyle might have unfastened it. Mrs. Brown returned home about half-past eleven, when she observed that the window curtain was down, but the door was locked. She missed her watch and chain, and the purse and sovereign. She went to Moyle's house, and charged Harriet Moyle with robbing her, which she denied. The assistance of police constable White was then obtained and in consequence of what had been seen by Jane Pearce, prosecutor's watch and part of the guard were found in the fire in prisoners' house. Harriet Moyle admitted that she had change the sovereign, and spent a penny or two; and Sarah Moyle produced 19s. and some pence from the end of a white handkerchief. Both prisoners were found Guilty on the first count for breaking and entering. THOMAS BARRETT was charged with stealing, on the 23rd of October, two pieces of timber, the property of the Cornwall Railway Company; and in a second count with receiving, knowing the timber to have been stolen. Mr. CORNISH for the prosecution, and Mr. CHILDS for the prisoner. In erecting the bridge at Saltash, the company have been using a great deal of scaffolding. One of the tubes having been completed, the scaffolding was taken to pieces, and the timber stacked on the bank of the river. From time to time some of the balk had been stolen; a search warrant was obtained, and in prisoner's carpenter's shop, timber was found which Mr. WHITING, the foreman of the railway works at Saltash, was enabled to identify as the property of the company. The defence was, that the prisoner had purchased the timber of a merchant at Devon port, and Mr. Childs, in an able speech, urged that there was no attempt at concealment by his client, and that the lapse of time (about four months) before the timber was found, was such that he ought not to be called to account for its possession. The Chairman summed up in the prisoner's favour, and the jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty. WILLIAM DAVEY, 32 labourer, was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of JOSEPH TRENERRY, at Redruth, on the 30th of October last. Mr. CORNISH prosecuted. Prosecutor lives at Truro, and is in the habit of attending Redruth market, and on the day in question his wife was there with a standing. The prisoner was seen loitering about the standing, and subsequently came and stood close by. Prosecutor's wife asked him if he wanted a pair of boots, but he made no reply. He left, and shortly after she discovered that a pair of boots, which were on the end of the standing near where the prisoner was, had been taken away. He was apprehended by Sergeant COOMB[S ?] of the county constabulary, with the boots on his feet. Prisoner in defence said he bought the boots of the prosecutor's wife, and gave 8s. 6d. for them, which she emphatically denied. Verdict Guilty. THOMAS SMITH, 22, seaman, was indicted for stealing nine sovereigns, a pair of boots, and a key, the property of ETIENE ROGERS, at Falmouth, on the 10th of December. The felony was committed whilst the prisoner was lodging at Radford's lodging-house, at Falmouth. Prisoner received the key of prosecutor's chest to give to a little boy to take some money out for prosecutor, but instead of giving the key to the boy as requested, he unlocked the chest and helped himself to the articles set out in the indictment. He proceeded to Penryn, where he was apprehended, and in the examination before the magistrates, (which was put in as evidence) he admitted taking GBP3. 12s. 6d., and the boots. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. SAMUEL HOSKIN, described in the calendar as of the age of 13, and a labourer, but presented the appearance of being much younger, was charged with assaulting, stabbing, cutting, and wounding RICHARD NICHOLLS, a boy of about the same age, at Mawgan, on the 30th of October. In the evening of that day, JOHN NICHOLLS was at the house of JANE HOSKIN the prisoner's mother, in company with another lad named FREDERICK JOHN CRAPP, playing at cards, when Nicholls's brothers, Richard and William came to the house, and commenced holloaing and making a noise outside the window. The prisoner with John Nicholls went outside; a chase ensued, and ultimately a general fight took place between the boys. In the scuffle, the prisoner drew a knife from his pocket and stabbed his opponent Richard Nicholls, in the side of the abdomen. Mr. T. DARKE MARTIN, surgeon, of St. Columb, was called in, but he found the would very trifling, or at least anticipated no danger, and therefore did not repeat his visit. Mr. G. B. COLLINS prosecuted. Mr. CHILDS in defending the prisoner remarked, that the case although made out on parchment as a serious one, was truly of a trifling character. He asked the jury for an immediate acquittal, and suggested that a severe chastisement by the prisoner's parents at home, would have been far better than bringing a child of his age into court on such a charge. The Chairman likewise said there appeared to have been no felonious intent on the prisoner's part, and he thought the highest verdict the jury could arrive at, would be that of a common assault. He also stated that the prisoner had been in gaol every since the offence was committed. A verdict of acquittal was returned. MATTHIAS JOLL pleaded guilty of stealing the sum of GBP2. 10s. from his master, JAMES RUNDLE, of Linkinhorne. SAMUEL MICHELL, 20, labourer, pleaded guilty of embezzling monies the property of his master, JAMES BAKER, of Tintagle. JOSEPH DOWDLE, 18, soldier of the 37th regiment, and appearing in his regimental uniform, was charged with killing a ewe sheep and stealing a shoulder thereof, the property of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, at Maker, on the 20th November last. Mr. CHILDS prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended. The jury did not consider the evidence conclusive, and acquitted the prisoner. There was another charge against him as accessory after the fact, but on this no evidence was officer. CAUTION TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN - On Saturday last, Mr. RICHARD ARNALL, second son of Mr. THOMAS ARNELL, Tolgus House, near Redruth, was preparing for a day's sport; he had fired a blank charge to clear his gun, and was in the act of reloading, when by some means the charge of powder exploded, blew the powder flask to atoms, and shattered his arm from the thumb to the elbow in a shocking manner. We are, however, happy to say that he is progressing favourably. APPOINTMENT - The London Gazette of the 25th ult., announces the Queen's approval of Mr. RICHART R. BROAD, jun., as Vice Consul at Falmouth for the Republic of Salvador. THE CUSTOMS - Mr. J. FOYSTER, comptroller at Falmouth, is appointed collector at Ramsgate; and Mr. J. GLASSON, comptroller at Lynn, has been appointed comptroller at Falmouth. NEWLYN - As a remarkable instance of the mildness of the season previous to the last few days, we may mention that in the garden of Mr. RABY, close to the village of Newlyn, was to be seen an apple of the second bearing, as large as the top of a man's thumb. PENRYN POLICE - FRANCIS BRADDON, assistant paymaster of H.M. ship "Eagle," was summoned by police constable WHITE to appear on Wednesday the 30th ult. For being drunk in this borough on the 11th of December, at midnight. Mr. Braddon not being prepared with his defence, the case was adjourned until Thursday the 31st when Mr. Braddon made his appearance before Mr. J. B. REED, mayor, Mr. E. TEAGUE, and Mr. S. STEPHENS, magistrates, to answer the charge. The magistrates considered the case proved, and find the defendant five shillings and costs. Mr. JENKINS appeared for the complainant and Mr. TILLY for the defendant. On the 30th ult., before Mr. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mr. JOHN BORLASE, and Mr. F. M. WILLIAMS, county magistrates, WILLIAM WHITE, one of the police officers of Penryn, was charged with an assault on Mr. FRANCIS BRADDON, on the night of the 11th of December, in the parish of Budock. It was the same occasion as that in which Mr. Braddon had been charged by the policeman with being drunk. Mr. TILLY appeared for the complainant, and Mr. JENKINS defended White. Evidence was given on both sides, and the Bench, after a short consultation, dismissed the complaint. (We have received a long report of the case, but the space occupied by the sessions proceedings, prevents its insertion. CASE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING. At Carnbell Green, in the parish of Gwinear, WILLIAM HARVEY and WILLIAM EVA, miners, were drinking on Saturday last at the Pendarves Arms, kept by Mrs. HAMBLY, until about 10 p.m. when Harvey left, and soon afterwards Eva left and passed Harvey in the road talking to another man. Eva had not gone far before he was overtaken by Harvey, and on going along the road something came up about fighting; Eva and Harvey had two or three quarrels previous to this, and each considered himself as good a man as the other. A challenge was then given, and they both went into a field to fight, and a person named HOSKINS was to stand at a distance to see that there was "fair play". After one round Eva appeared to be the "best man," and others who had by this time come up, endeavoured to persuade him to home, but he would not, and Harvey not being willing to give in, said he would give him another round, when after a few blows, they caught hold of each other and fell into the hedge, Harvey being under, when he with a knife or some sharp instrument, inflicted from fifteen to twenty wounds on Eva, cutting him in a most unmerciful manner about the neck and body. On Eva being taken up he was discovered to be bleeding dreadfully; he had been cut with a knife, and went after Harvey and told him he had cut him to ribbons. Eva was then taken back to the public house, and Mr. THOMAS HAMBLY, to whom great praise is due for his exertions, was enabled after some delay to obtain the services of Mr. VINCENT, surgeon, at Camborne, who on coming found Eva in a most dangerous state. Some of the wounds were very deep, especially a stab in the neck, which had it been the 16th part of an inch in another direction, would have cut the leading artery, and death must have immediately followed. Mr. MILLER, superintendent, proceeded to the house of Harvey at Gwinear, and took him into custody. He was conveyed to Camborne, and remanded till the 8th instant. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. MOSES CALLAWAY cut his throat with a razor on Friday morning last, at his daughter's residence, in Gulval Church Town. The wound was deep, but surgical aid being quickly obtained his life was saved. His mind for some time has shown symptoms of derangement and he has now been sent to the asylum. NARROW ESCAPE. On Sunday last, as Mr. GRIGG and Mr. MENHENICK, farmers of Creed, and two ladies, were proceeding to Probus church, through neglect of putting on the drag at the top of Grampound hill, the horse, a powerful animal, became quite unmanageable, and carried them down the hill at a furious rate, causing great alarm and anxiety to the inhabitants. Fortunately there was nothing passing at the time, and the horse was brought up at the foot of the hill without causing any material injury. CORONER'S INQUEST. The following inquest has been held by Mr. J. CARLYON, county coroner:- On Thursday last, at Trerew Farm, IN THE PARISH OF Crantock, on the body of Mr. ARTHUR SLEEMAN, aged 54 years, who was killed the day before, by being thrown out of his cart, under the following circumstances. It appeared that he had gone with his horse and cart to a place called Shop, in the parish St. Columb Minor, to fetch a winnowing machine. On his way back, the horse, which was a high spirited animal ran off, and the deceased who was riding on the front part of the cart was thrown out and so seriously injured that he died before he could be taken home. Verdict "accidental death." West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. 8th January, 1848. TRIALS OF PRISONERS - ELIZA CHEEVE, 19, pleaded guilty of stealing a silk shawl, on the 27th December, the property of EDWARD BENNETT. She also pleaded guilty of stealing at St. Austell on the 28th December, a pewter pint, the property of ROBERT DUNN. SUSAN THOMAS, 30, pleaded guilty of stealing at Liskeard, on the 6th November, two waistcoat pieces and a piece of cloth, the property of JAMES SOWDEN. She was also charged with stealing five plaid scarfs and a dress, the property of WILLIAM BARRETT, at Liskeard; but on this indictment no evidence was offered. FRANCES GLANVELL, 21, pleaded guilty of stealing (after a former conviction) a box, a half-crown, four shillings and six sixpences, on the 6th November, at Illogan, the property of JOHN THOMAS. JOHN CLARK, 47, gardener, pleaded guilty of embezzling the sum of GBP8. 18s. 8d., the property of his master, WILLIAM HENRY POLE CAREW, at Antony, on the 2nd of September last. SUSAN BLIGHT, a young married woman on bail, was charged with stealing from JAMES SAMPSON, a miner of St. Agnes, on the 21st of November, a number of current coin of the realm, value, GBP27, and also an American five cent. piece, the property of the said JAMES SAMPSON. Mr. STOKES conducted the prosecution; Mr. SHILSON the defence. JAMES SAMPSON, the prosecutor, stated that the prisoner was his nearest neighbour. In November last, he discovered that his chest, in which he had kept money locked up, had been broken open, and about GBP27 worth of gold and silver coins, one of which was an American five cent. piece, had been stolen. In the chest in which he kept his money, had also been a piece of paper of peculiar sort. NICHOLAS BRYANT, constable of St. Agnes, about seven o'clock in the morning of the 26th November, went with a search warrant to prisoner's house, in company with another constable. She said they were at liberty to search every part of the house. Shortly after they entered she went up stairs to dress her children. While she was up stairs, I searched one cupboard downstairs, and while doing so, I heard the noise of something falling into the other cupboard; I ran up stairs into the room were prisoner was; she was standing in the place where money had fallen into the cupboard below; she turned round as I came up and let fall a considerable lot of money on the floor, and she was rolling in her hand a piece of wet paper. I picked up from the floor of the room and the stairs, GBP5. 13s. I then went down stairs, and in the cupboard where I had heard something fall, I found GBP5. 4s. Both these sums were in sovereigns and silver. I then went up stairs with two females to search the prisoner, and in the pockets of her dress found three or four half-pence and an American silver coin. James Sampson recalled, identified the American coin, by a punch-hole in it. On Cross-Examination, he said he had about GBP40 in the box altogether. I have a wife and seven children, the eldest boy being about sixteen; the box is kept in the room in which I and my family sleep. I had not counted my money in my chest for a year and half or more; but on the 13th of November I put in 4 1/2 sovereigns, and then saw other gold and silver there. RICHARD HOOPER, a parish constable of St. Agnes, who accompanied Bryant on the search, corroborated his evidence. He added that while he was down stairs, a woman brought down the chamber utensil; he followed her to see it emptied, and saw that it contained a purse, and 28s. 4d. After that he went up stairs and found two sovereigns more on the floor. Cross-Examined. It was Bryant who told the prisoner to go up stairs and dress the children, who had followed her down, naked. For the defence, Mr. Shilson suggested that the evidence for the prosecution left it uncertain whether or not he had lost any money; but, assuming that he had, there was no evidence that the prisoner had ever been in prosecutor's house or knew anything about it; while it was proved that the box was kept under the bed in the room in which the prosecutor and all his family slept. Another fact for the defence was that though the prosecutor said he lost about GBP27, and that there was about GBP40 in the box, only GBP14. 5s. had been found in the prisoner's possession; while no evidence had been given to account for the remainder, or to show that it had been used by her. Mr. Shilson disputed the evidence of identity of the American coin; and suggested that the money she was apparently intending to secrete was about GBP14, which she possessed of her own, her husband being a miner, and which she was fearful of losing, on the arrival of the constables. If the money had been the prosecutor's, she could have no object in secreting it, as it was not capable of being identified; she would rather have directed her attention to the secreting of the American coin. In summing up, the Chairman put several points in favour of the prisoner, and from her examination before the magistrates said she stated she had saved up GBP14, and that when the constables came she was afraid of losing it, and was taking means of concealment when they came into her room; but on the other hand, it was unfavourable to her case that she made no mention of this when the house was searched. The Chairman further remarked that it was possible the robbery may have been committed by her husband, who was not before the court. - Verdict, Not Guilty. KITTING - JAMES TEAGUE, THOMAS COCK, and FRANCIS TEAGUE, young miners, were charged with stealing 20 cwt. of copper ore, from the Great South Tolgus mine at Redruth, on the 11th of September, the property of JOHN DAW and others, adventurers. Mr. STOKES conducted the prosecution; Mr. SHILSON the defence. Mr. Stokes opened the following case for the prosecution. The charge was of the offence commonly called "kitting" - the removing of ores in a mine for the purpose of increasing the wages payable on tribute to the parties charged. Exhibiting plans to the court and jury, Mr. Stokes stated that in the 70 fathoms level of this mine there were two pitches - one called Middletons or Cock's pitch, in which the prisoner Cock worked; and the other, on the other side of the shaft, called Davey's pitch, in which the two other prisoners worked. Middleton, who had worked with Cock in Middleton's pitch, had left the country and was believed to be in Australia. At the July setting for two months, Cock and Middleton took their pitch at 10s. in the pound, and Davey's pitch was taken by Davey and Teague at 12s. in the pound - high tributes, the ore being poor. Davey's pitch was an entirely new one; but Cock's or Middleton's had been worked before. In September, those two pairs of men claimed to have broken in their several pitches a very considerable quantity of very rich ore - more than 7 tons in Davey's pitch, and more than 6 1/2 in Middleton's pitch. Consequently, a large sum of money was paid to the prisoners, in respect of subsist and tribute; the captains at that time, though having their suspicions, having no such evidence as would warrant their withholding payment. The case against the prisoners would very much depend on the evidence of two men, named RICHARDS and PENGELLY, who were employed as skip-fillers in the 70 fathoms level; and they would state that they saw the three prisoners, in September, take the rich ore from the adventurers' piles, near the stopes, worked at tutwork, and carry it away to their own piles, in barrows, in their shirts and pockets, and by other means. The quantity charged to have been thus taken was very large indeed; it would be proved that the ground said to have been "spent" in Davey's pitch would not contain the dressed ore contained in Teague and Davey's pile, and on which they claimed and received payment. Proof of this kind could not be offered in respect of the pitch worked by Cock and Middleton; but it would be shown that the ores in both of the prisoner's pitches differed in colour as well as quality from the ores at the adventurers' stopes; and ores from the various places mentioned would be submitted to the jury. Evidence in the case was then given. The first witness called was Capt. JOHN DAW, manager of Great South Tolgus mine. In the course of his evidence, he stated that in September, at the close of their two months' take, Davey and Teague claimed to have broken in their pitch, 7 tons 6 cwt. 2 qrs. dry weight, which sold at GBP7. 12s. per ton; and the tribute paid to them after deducting for costs, was GBP28. 14s. 4d. Middleton and Cock claimed for 6 tons 12 cwt. 3 qrs. of ore, dry weight, which sold at GBP7. 12s. per ton; and the tribute paid to them after deducting for costs, was GBP28. 14s. 4d. Middleton and Cock claimed for 6 tons 12 cwt. 3 qrs. of ore, dry weight, which sold at GBP5. 1s. per ton; and they were paid a net tribute of GBP12. 10s. 6d. The produce of the ore claimed by Davey and Teague was 7 5/8 - a high produce. The produce of the ore claimed as from the other pitch was 5 1/2 a good produce. The ore at the stopes was a rich yellow ore, which in some places made a produce nine or ten, and in other places a produce of fifteen - a very high produce. On the prisoners' piles he saw rich yellow ore, which he was satisfied came from the stope4s in the 70-fathoms level, and could not have been broken in the prisoners' pitches. Evidence was also given by JOSEPH RICHARDS and THOMAS PENGELLY, skip-fillers, and by Captain JOSEPH JEWELL, managing agent of East Wheal Tolgus. A portion of the evidence of Captain Jewell was that on his measuring the ground which had been broken in Davey's pitch, he made it 82 1/2 cubic feet, which space could not possibly contain seven tons of dressed ore, irrespective of attle. The usual calculation was that about twenty cubic feet of dressed ore made a ton weight. Samples of ores were produced from the adventurers stopes, and from Middleton's and Davey's pitches. Mr. Shilson ably addressed the jury for the defence; and the Chairman summed up carefully, and in the course of doing so, strongly urged that, in cases of kitting, when samples of ore were taken from the levels or piles, this should be done in the presence of the accused or suspected parties; which had not been done in the present case. The Jury, after nearly half an hour's conference in their box, retired for further consultation, and after an absence of nearly an hour, they returned into court, with a verdict finding all three prisoners Guilty. WILLIAM HENRY PARNELL was charged with stealing thirty-six bushels of barley, the property of JOHN HAWKEN, jun. Mr. G. B. COLLINS conducted the prosecution; Mr. STOKES the defence. In this case, both the prosecutor and the prisoner were respectable merchants of Wadebridge, engaged in the purchase and shipment of corn. After the examination of several witnesses for the prosecution, the Chairman, on the facts elicited, stopped the case and directed a verdict of Acquittal, on the ground that there seemed to have been a dispute as to the purchase of some barley, but that clearly there was no felony. We were informed that the clergyman of St. Breock and many respectable merchants and other inhabitants of Wadebridge were waiting in court to give the prisoner an excellent character, had he been called for defence; they would have stated, we understand, that in his commercial transactions he had never been found other than honest and upright. Mr. LETHBRIDGE here retired from the chair, which was occupied, during the remainder of the sitting, by JOHN JOPE ROGERS, Esq. PAUL GLAZER, 39, hawker, was indicted for uttering at St. Agnes, on the 6th of November, a counterfeit half-crown to ELIZABETH TERRELL; a counterfeit crown to JOHN TREDINNICK; and a counterfeit half-crown to ANN LANGWORTHY; these parties being shop keepers. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner by numerous witnesses, some of whom he addressed ad cross-examined with an almost religious solemnity of voice and manner, and, in one instance, with an impressive adjuration not to think of deceiving the One above. The evidence against him was closed by his own statement before the committing magistrate at Truro, in which he acknowledged having passed the counterfeit coins, as charged, adding that he bought the so-called half-crowns at sixpence each, and the counterfeit crown for tenpence. Verdict Guilty. WILLIAM BARRETT, 20, horsetrainer, was found guilty of stealing, on the 16th November last, at Bodwen[?] in the parish of Lanlivery, a beaver hat and a chip hat, the property of Mr. JOHN CORY. A prior conviction was proved against him at the assizes in July, 1853[?] when he was sentenced to seven years transportation. HENRY DAY, 30 plumber, was charged with stealing, at Tregothnan, two pieces of lead and one piece of iron pipe, the property of the Right Honourable EVELYN, Viscount Falmouth. Mr. CHILDS conducted the prosecution; the prisoner was defended by Mr. SHILSON. Evidence in the case was given by JOHN MAC LEAN, plumber and brazier, of Truro (the prisoner's employer at the time of the felony); WILLIAM HENRY RANDALL, an apprentice to Mr. Mac Lean; WILLIAM JOSEPH NASH, superintendent of police at Truro; WILLIAM WOOLCOCK, serjeant of police at Truro; HENRY BAKER, shoemaker, who had been in custody on a charge of feloniously received lead and iron from the prisoner, but was now admitted as Queen's evidence against him; and HENRY IVEY, watchmaker and whitesmith of Truro. Evidence in favour of prisoner's previous character, from boyhood, was given by WILLIAM PLYMING of Truro, formerly a contractor for the conveyance of prisoners; and it was stated that JOSEPH TRENERRY of Truro had waited until a late hour of the day for the purpose of giving similar testimony. Verdict, Guilty. There was another indictment against the prisoner charging him with stealing lead, the property of Mr. Mac Lean; but on this indictment no evidence was offered. Bills against the following prisoners were ignored:- MATTHEW STEPHENS; THOMAS TRATHEN; JOHN MINERS, JAMES MATTHEWS and JOSEPH SECCOMBE. SOLOMON MARTIN, 24, labourer, was indicted for stealing a donkey, the property for JOHN RICHARDS, on the 31st of October. Mr. COMMINS for the prosecution, and Mr. CHILDS for the defence. Prosecutor, who lives in Wendron, had a donkey called "Billy," which used to follow him. He turned the donkey on the common, and missed him for some time, but on the 6th of November found the animal at Lanner, in Gwennap, and on calling him, the donkey at once came to his master. ELEANOR KNEEBONE, at Lanner, had purchased the donkey of the prisoner. The defence was, that the prisoner found the donkey straying and could not discover the owner. JOHN THOMAS, constable at Ponsanooth, and two farmers of Stithians gave the prisoner a good character. Verdict, Guilty. SARAH MOYLE, and HARRIET MOYLE, 18, a tailoress, mother and daughter, were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of THOMAS BROWN, at Penryn, and stealing therefrom a silver watch, guard-chain and keys, a purse and sovereign. Another count charged larceny, and a third count, receiving knowing to have been stolen. Mr. JENKINS conducted the prosecution, and called as witnesses Mrs. ELIZABETH BROWN, wife of prosecutor, her sister JANE PEARCE, and police-constable WHITE. The prisoners were undefended. It appeared that on Sunday afternoon, the 8th of November, one of the prisoners, Harriet Moyle, who was a neighbour of prosecutor, came into Mrs. Brown's house at Penryn, and whilst there, Mrs. Brown took out of her pocket a bead purse containing a sovereign. Harriet Moyle asked to see it, and after looking at the purse, returned it to Mrs. Brown, who placed it in a cupboard. About half-past three, they both left the house, and the watch was then hanging over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Brown locked the door and took the key with her. The window had been fastened in the morning, but Mrs. Brown said, whilst she was up-stairs, Harriet Moyle might have unfastened it. Mrs. Brown returned home about half-past eleven, when she observed that the window curtain was down, but the door was locked. She missed her watch and chain, and the purse and sovereign. She went to Moyle's house, and charged Harriet Moyle with robbing her, which she denied. The assistance of police constable White was then obtained and in consequence of what had been seen by Jane Pearce, prosecutor's watch and part of the guard were found in the fire in prisoners' house. Harriet Moyle admitted that she had change the sovereign, and spent a penny or two; and Sarah Moyle produced 19s. and some pence from the end of a white handkerchief. Both prisoners were found Guilty on the first count for breaking and entering. THOMAS BARRETT was charged with stealing, on the 23rd of October, two pieces of timber, the property of the Cornwall Railway Company; and in a second count with receiving, knowing the timber to have been stolen. Mr. CORNISH for the prosecution, and Mr. CHILDS for the prisoner. In erecting the bridge at Saltash, the company have been using a great deal of scaffolding. One of the tubes having been completed, the scaffolding was taken to pieces, and the timber stacked on the bank of the river. From time to time some of the balk had been stolen; a search warrant was obtained, and in prisoner's carpenter's shop, timber was found which Mr. WHITING, the foreman of the railway works at Saltash, was enabled to identify as the property of the company. The defence was, that the prisoner had purchased the timber of a merchant at Devon port, and Mr. Childs, in an able speech, urged that there was no attempt at concealment by his client, and that the lapse of time (about four months) before the timber was found, was such that he ought not to be called to account for its possession. The Chairman summed up in the prisoner's favour, and the jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty. WILLIAM DAVEY, 32 labourer, was charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of JOSEPH TRENERRY, at Redruth, on the 30th of October last. Mr. CORNISH prosecuted. Prosecutor lives at Truro, and is in the habit of attending Redruth market, and on the day in question his wife was there with a standing. The prisoner was seen loitering about the standing, and subsequently came and stood close by. Prosecutor's wife asked him if he wanted a pair of boots, but he made no reply. He left, and shortly after she discovered that a pair of boots, which were on the end of the standing near where the prisoner was, had been taken away. He was apprehended by Sergeant COOMB[S ?] of the county constabulary, with the boots on his feet. Prisoner in defence said he bought the boots of the prosecutor's wife, and gave 8s. 6d. for them, which she emphatically denied. Verdict Guilty. THOMAS SMITH, 22, seaman, was indicted for stealing nine sovereigns, a pair of boots, and a key, the property of ETIENE ROGERS, at Falmouth, on the 10th of December. The felony was committed whilst the prisoner was lodging at Radford's lodging-house, at Falmouth. Prisoner received the key of prosecutor's chest to give to a little boy to take some money out for prosecutor, but instead of giving the key to the boy as requested, he unlocked the chest and helped himself to the articles set out in the indictment. He proceeded to Penryn, where he was apprehended, and in the examination before the magistrates, (which was put in as evidence) he admitted taking GBP3. 12s. 6d., and the boots. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. SAMUEL HOSKIN, described in the calendar as of the age of 13, and a labourer, but presented the appearance of being much younger, was charged with assaulting, stabbing, cutting, and wounding RICHARD NICHOLLS, a boy of about the same age, at Mawgan, on the 30th of October. In the evening of that day, JOHN NICHOLLS was at the house of JANE HOSKIN the prisoner's mother, in company with another lad named FREDERICK JOHN CRAPP, playing at cards, when Nicholls's brothers, Richard and William came to the house, and commenced holloaing and making a noise outside the window. The prisoner with John Nicholls went outside; a chase ensued, and ultimately a general fight took place between the boys. In the scuffle, the prisoner drew a knife from his pocket and stabbed his opponent Richard Nicholls, in the side of the abdomen. Mr. T. DARKE MARTIN, surgeon, of St. Columb, was called in, but he found the would very trifling, or at least anticipated no danger, and therefore did not repeat his visit. Mr. G. B. COLLINS prosecuted. Mr. CHILDS in defending the prisoner remarked, that the case although made out on parchment as a serious one, was truly of a trifling character. He asked the jury for an immediate acquittal, and suggested that a severe chastisement by the prisoner's parents at home, would have been far better than bringing a child of his age into court on such a charge. The Chairman likewise said there appeared to have been no felonious intent on the prisoner's part, and he thought the highest verdict the jury could arrive at, would be that of a common assault. He also stated that the prisoner had been in gaol every since the offence was committed. A verdict of acquittal was returned. MATTHIAS JOLL pleaded guilty of stealing the sum of GBP2. 10s. from his master, JAMES RUNDLE, of Linkinhorne. SAMUEL MICHELL, 20, labourer, pleaded guilty of embezzling monies the property of his master, JAMES BAKER, of Tintagle. JOSEPH DOWDLE, 18, soldier of the 37th regiment, and appearing in his regimental uniform, was charged with killing a ewe sheep and stealing a shoulder thereof, the property of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, at Maker, on the 20th November last. Mr. CHILDS prosecuted; the prisoner was undefended. The jury did not consider the evidence conclusive, and acquitted the prisoner. There was another charge against him as accessory after the fact, but on this no evidence was officer. CAUTION TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN - On Saturday last, Mr. RICHARD ARNALL, second son of Mr. THOMAS ARNELL, Tolgus House, near Redruth, was preparing for a day's sport; he had fired a blank charge to clear his gun, and was in the act of reloading, when by some means the charge of powder exploded, blew the powder flask to atoms, and shattered his arm from the thumb to the elbow in a shocking manner. We are, however, happy to say that he is progressing favourably. APPOINTMENT - The London Gazette of the 25th ult., announces the Queen's approval of Mr. RICHART R. BROAD, jun., as Vice Consul at Falmouth for the Republic of Salvador. THE CUSTOMS - Mr. J. FOYSTER, comptroller at Falmouth, is appointed collector at Ramsgate; and Mr. J. GLASSON, comptroller at Lynn, has been appointed comptroller at Falmouth. NEWLYN - As a remarkable instance of the mildness of the season previous to the last few days, we may mention that in the garden of Mr. RABY, close to the village of Newlyn, was to be seen an apple of the second bearing, as large as the top of a man's thumb. PENRYN POLICE - FRANCIS BRADDON, assistant paymaster of H.M. ship "Eagle," was summoned by police constable WHITE to appear on Wednesday the 30th ult. For being drunk in this borough on the 11th of December, at midnight. Mr. Braddon not being prepared with his defence, the case was adjourned until Thursday the 31st when Mr. Braddon made his appearance before Mr. J. B. REED, mayor, Mr. E. TEAGUE, and Mr. S. STEPHENS, magistrates, to answer the charge. The magistrates considered the case proved, and find the defendant five shillings and costs. Mr. JENKINS appeared for the complainant and Mr. TILLY for the defendant. On the 30th ult., before Mr. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mr. JOHN BORLASE, and Mr. F. M. WILLIAMS, county magistrates, WILLIAM WHITE, one of the police officers of Penryn, was charged with an assault on Mr. FRANCIS BRADDON, on the night of the 11th of December, in the parish of Budock. It was the same occasion as that in which Mr. Braddon had been charged by the policeman with being drunk. Mr. TILLY appeared for the complainant, and Mr. JENKINS defended White. Evidence was given on both sides, and the Bench, after a short consultation, dismissed the complaint. (We have received a long report of the case, but the space occupied by the sessions proceedings, prevents its insertion. CASE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING. At Carnbell Green, in the parish of Gwinear, WILLIAM HARVEY and WILLIAM EVA, miners, were drinking on Saturday last at the Pendarves Arms, kept by Mrs. HAMBLY, until about 10 p.m. when Harvey left, and soon afterwards Eva left and passed Harvey in the road talking to another man. Eva had not gone far before he was overtaken by Harvey, and on going along the road something came up about fighting; Eva and Harvey had two or three quarrels previous to this, and each considered himself as good a man as the other. A challenge was then given, and they both went into a field to fight, and a person named HOSKINS was to stand at a distance to see that there was "fair play". After one round Eva appeared to be the "best man," and others who had by this time come up, endeavoured to persuade him to home, but he would not, and Harvey not being willing to give in, said he would give him another round, when after a few blows, they caught hold of each other and fell into the hedge, Harvey being under, when he with a knife or some sharp instrument, inflicted from fifteen to twenty wounds on Eva, cutting him in a most unmerciful manner about the neck and body. On Eva being taken up he was discovered to be bleeding dreadfully; he had been cut with a knife, and went after Harvey and told him he had cut him to ribbons. Eva was then taken back to the public house, and Mr. THOMAS HAMBLY, to whom great praise is due for his exertions, was enabled after some delay to obtain the services of Mr. VINCENT, surgeon, at Camborne, who on coming found Eva in a most dangerous state. Some of the wounds were very deep, especially a stab in the neck, which had it been the 16th part of an inch in another direction, would have cut the leading artery, and death must have immediately followed. Mr. MILLER, superintendent, proceeded to the house of Harvey at Gwinear, and took him into custody. He was conveyed to Camborne, and remanded till the 8th instant. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. MOSES CALLAWAY cut his throat with a razor on Friday morning last, at his daughter's residence, in Gulval Church Town. The wound was deep, but surgical aid being quickly obtained his life was saved. His mind for some time has shown symptoms of derangement and he has now been sent to the asylum. NARROW ESCAPE. On Sunday last, as Mr. GRIGG and Mr. MENHENICK, farmers of Creed, and two ladies, were proceeding to Probus church, through neglect of putting on the drag at the top of Grampound hill, the horse, a powerful animal, became quite unmanageable, and carried them down the hill at a furious rate, causing great alarm and anxiety to the inhabitants. Fortunately there was nothing passing at the time, and the horse was brought up at the foot of the hill without causing any material injury. CORONER'S INQUEST. The following inquest has been held by Mr. J. CARLYON, county coroner:- On Thursday last, at Trerew Farm, IN THE PARISH OF Crantock, on the body of Mr. ARTHUR SLEEMAN, aged 54 years, who was killed the day before, by being thrown out of his cart, under the following circumstances. It appeared that he had gone with his horse and cart to a place called Shop, in the parish St. Columb Minor, to fetch a winnowing machine. On his way back, the horse, which was a high spirited animal ran off, and the deceased who was riding on the front part of the cart was thrown out and so seriously injured that he died before he could be taken home. Verdict "accidental death."