West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Friday 28th August, 1857. MINING CASE - An action has been tried at the Surrey Assizes at Croydon, in which the plaintiff was Mr. TREDINNICK, a mine share broker, of London, and the defendant, Mr. E. BOYNS, of Penzance. The action was brought to recover damages alleged to be sustained by the plaintiff, on defendant not accepting a transfer of ten Balnoon Shares. It appeared that plaintiff sold to the defendant the shares at 6 1/4 , and sent a transfer; but at the date of the transfer plaintiff had not the shares standing in his name and defendant returned transfer and wrote plaintiff that unless the shares were sent right by the next post he would not take them. The plaintiff, by return of post, obtained shares, and sent them for registration; defendant, however, refused to complete his contract and this action was brought. The defendant contended he had a right to refuse the transfer, as plaintiff had no shares standing in his name. The plaintiff, on the other hand, contended the defendant gave him till return of post to make good the shares, and he did so, and defendant was bound to take them. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for GBP30, subject to the opinion of the Court on a point of law. TRURO POLICE - On Thursday the 20th instant, NANCY PALMER, of Charles Street, aged thirteen years, was charged with having, between nine and ten o'clock the previous evening, broken open a box in the market-house and stolen therefrom a pair of child's leather boots, value 4s., the property of Mr. W. CLYMA, boot-maker, River Street. The boots, it appears, were missed almost immediately after they had been stolen, and the prisoner was apprehended with them in her possession, in the Market-place, by police-constable CRAUFORD. Before the magistrates, she pleaded guilty, and by her request the case was disposed of summarily. She was sentenced to twenty-one days' hard labour. On Friday the 21st inst., HENRY FLINN was charged by Serjeant WOOLCOCK, before the Mayor and Mr. CHAPPEL, with being drunk in Boscawen Street, at eleven o'clock the previous night. In default of payment of costs, he was committed for twenty-one days' hard labour; and in default of two sureties of GBP10 each for his good behaviour for six months, he was committed for three calendar months. On Monday, ANNA MARIA MURREN, a prostitute, of Gwennap, was charged with creating a disturbance at ten o'clock on Saturday night, at the West Bridge. She was discharged on payment of costs and her promise to leave the town forthwith. BREAGE, SITHNEY AND GERMOE HORTICULTURAL AND COTTAGE GARDENING SOCIETY - This society held its meeting at Great Wh, Vor School-room, on the 13th instant. The show was excellent in fruit, flowers and vegetables; the Rev. Mr. PRIDMORE, vicar of Breage, viewed the gardens, the cottagers being delighted with his king manner and the good advice he gave them, and fully confident of his impartiality. Among others four gardens were entered at the little village of St. John's adjoining Helston, all tenants-at-will; their entering being chiefly owing to the kindness of Mr. JOSHUA STEPHENS. Mr. Stephens got the best prizes for gooseberries, raspberries and peas. Two of the garden prizes were awarded to St. John's; PETER RICHARDS, of St. John's, a sawyer, obtained a prize of GBP1 for his garden, having lately drained and brought it in from a useless waste, and about 30s. in other prizes. WILLIAM RODDA, of Troon, in Breage, had the second prize, and JOHN PERRY, of St. John's, the third prize for gardens. There were also three prizes for bees. BADCOCK and EVA, of Helston sent thirty sorts of dahliahs; and WILLIAMS, a sailor, sent two pines, which he brought from Cuba, in March last, and hung them up to his beam in the kitchen, by the slab; the only support they had was Stockholm tar. Everything was done at the meeting in an orderly and business-like manner, the ladies being particularly active and useful. Mr. POPHAM and Mr. PRIDMORE addressed the assembly, and the society is warmly supported by all the gentlemen in the district. FALMOUTH - JAMES CADDY, Esq., formerly commander of Her Majesty's packet-brig "Swiftsure," on this station has been appointed Sub-Commissioner of pilotage for the Falmouth district, vice-Commander W. P. CROKE, R.N., deceased. BODMIN - At the Guildhall, on Friday last, before Mr. EDYVEAN, the mayor, and Messrs. JAMES LIDDELL, JOHN WARD, and E. G. HAMLEY, justices, RICHARD YEO, was summoned for brutally and cruelly ill-treating a horse on the 14th instant, which had been placed under his care. The charge was laid against Yeo at the desire of several respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood for ill-treatment of the horse. Several parties attended and proved the case, and described the ill-usage to have been of a brutal and savage character. The magistrates after hearing the case inflicted on Yeo the penalty of 50s., or one month's imprisonment with hard labour, and the mayor suitably addressed him, highly censured his conduct to horses, and urges and pressed on him the necessity of his leaving the town, and gave him clearly to understand that they had given strict directions for his being more closely watched, and that if ever he was detected and brought before them again he would for every offence be fined in the penalty of GBP5 or three months imprisonment - which would have been done in this instance but for the illness of his wife, and not out of regard or kindness to him. Yeo was further summoned for having, on the 15th inst., driven a colt recklessly and carelessly through the public streets, on the day in question, which was market-day. It appeared from the evidence that, in driving down the Fore Street, he so severely cut and punished the horse with a whip that the poor animal shrank from the last quite exhausted, and fell on the causeway smashing upwards of GBP5 worth of glass in the window of Mr. CHARLES TONKIN, draper, and endangered the lives of several parties, and more particularly a poor woman who had a very narrow escape by being providentially knocked into the doorway. The case was partly heard but in consequence of the absence of a witness, it was adjourned until the next sitting of the bench. A NOBLE SAILOR - At Bude a few days ago, a lady named COX, a visitor at this place, was bathing at low water at the entrance of the harbour, but being a good swimmer she ventured too far and was drawn by the tide beyond the breakers, which were running very heavy. Her friends on the shore were, as might be imagined, in great agony of mind. GEORGE BATE, a sailor, seeing the lady's situation, with the greatest promptitude undressed himself and swam out to her rescue. At this time she was more than half a mile from the shore. On Bate reaching her she was found floating on her back, her bathing dress, probably, being the means of keeping her afloat. Boat approached her cautiously and spoke. She replied, "Can you save me?" Bate said, "Yes, if you will be steady." She then said, "Where shall I take hold of you?" Bate, seeing that she appeared collected, swam directly to her, and she placed her hands on his shoulders, and with this heavy burthen on his back, he commenced an arduous struggle towards the shore. When brought on shore Mrs. Cox was so completely exhausted as to be apparently lifeless, but with proper assistance she was restored. THE "EXMOUTH." - We are informed that THOMAS HICHENS the poor fisherman who was the means of saving the "Exmouth" ninety gun screw ship when embayed among the rocks in a cove near Kynance, in April last, has been rewarded by the Admiralty with the paltry sum of five pounds, for saving an English line of battle ship with a crew of 700 or 800 souls. The "Exmouth's" anchor with thirty fathoms of chain cable which was slipped when working off the rocks was recovered last week by Mr. W. B. HICKS of Penryn, the purchaser of the wreck of the steamer "Zebra," wrecked a few miles eastward last summer. In the Daily News of Tuesday last, we find the following letter respecting the same matter:- In the spring of the present year, the "Exmouth" an English ninety gun screw-ship, with a crew of 700 or 800 souls, on her way to Spithead, got some ten or twelve miles out of her course in a fog, and was seen by a fisherman, when west of the Lizard, proceeding under a press of canvas directly for the coast; he immediately apprised the officers of their imminent danger; the vessel was put about, and in doing so struck on a ridge of rocks; she then tailed off and an anchor was let go with fifteen fathoms of chain, which brought her up, when her stern was less than ten feet from some rocks at the foot of an almost perpendicular cliff about 200 feet high. She was here embayed in one of the many little coves on that coast; the fog was very thick at the time, and a heavy ground swell running in from the southwest. In this critical position she was boarded by a fisherman, named HITCHENS, at the risk of his life, and under his direction the steam was got up, the anchor slipped, and the vessel piloted out in safety. This poor fisherman was thus the means of saving very many lives, and national property worth probably GBP100,000. The tide was at ebb at the time, and had the ship remained there two hours longer nothing could have saved her, as a very heavy gale from the south-west arose in the evening, when a great loss of life must have occurred. For this very important service the Admiralty have rewarded this poor fisherman with the paltry sum of five pounds! Cannot you, through the power possessed by the leaders of the London daily press, get the claims of this poor fisherman justly attended to, and the nation spared such a disgrace?" SERIOUS ACCIDENT - On Monday last, the keepers and their assistants were deer stalking in Tregothnan Park, and had just brought down a fine buck - whilst in the act of giving him the coup de grace, a rifle, which had been placed against the palisades, was accidentally upset, and in falling exploded, sending the ball through the calf of the leg of a young man called Gill. Considerable haemorrhage followed, and Gill was removed in a very exhausted state, to St. Michael Penkivel village, where the Rev. F. WEBBER, who is always most active among his parishioners in all cases of illness and accident, promptly and adroitly applied such pressure to the wound as stopped the bleeding, and placed the limb in a suitable position until surgical aid could be procured. When Mr. SPRY arrived, he was so well satisfied with the manner in which the limb had been secured, that he found it unnecessary to interfere with it, and recommended Gill's immediate removal to the Infirmary. We understand that up to this time (Thursday) the case is doing well. MINE ACCIDENT - On Thursday last, as a man named JOSEPH TROUNCE, a timberman in Dolcoath mine, was repairing one of the shafts, something fell from above and knocked away the board he was standing on, when he fell down the shaft a depth of 105 fathoms. When found he was dreadfully mutilated and of course quite dead. Trounce was 44 years of age and has left a large family to deplore his loss. BUDE HAVEN - A gloom was spread over this place on Monday last, in consequences of a report (which we regret to add proved too true), that a young man named SAMUEL BRAY from Launceston, was drowned while bathing on the northern beach at low tide. It appears that he had just before arrived here as one of a party to spend the day, and had gone with two or three others into the sea. After continuing a short time in the water he was seized with cramp, which completely doubled him and rendered him powerless, and before his companions (one of whom was further out than himself), could render him any assistance, was carried off with the current, and was not even seen again; nor has his body yet been picked up. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. BRAY, spirit-merchant, of Launceston, and his sister, brother, and others, left the same evening to make known the sad intelligence to his widowed and bereaved mother.