West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. 21st August, 1857. CAUTION - I, JOHN PALMER, of Kenwyn Street, in the Borough of Truro, do hereby give Notice, that I will not be answerable for any Debts that my wife AMELIA PALMER may contract after this notice. Signed - JOHN PALMER. Witness - JOHN DARBY. August 20th, 1857. NOTICE - All Persons indebted to the late Mr. THOMAS STARK, of Mevagissey, are requested to pay the amount due, to us the Undersigned, forthwith; and all Persons having Claims on the said Thomas Stark, are desired to furnish us with particulars of the same without delay. COODE, SONS, and SHILSON, Solicitors for the Trustees and Executors. St. Austell, August 14, 1857. PURSUANT TO AN ORDER - Of the High Court of chancery made in a cause of TWEEDY against DEVONSHIRE the Creditors of JOHN KEMPE DEVONSHIRE, late of East Moulsey, in the County of Surrey, gentleman, who died in or about the month of December, 1856, are by their Solicitors on or before the Sixteenth day of November, 1857, to come in and prove their debts, at the Chambers of the Master of the Rolls, in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Friday the 20th day of November, 1857, at Twelve o'clock in the Forenoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 8th day of August, 1857. GEORGE WHITING, Chief Clerk. PURSUANT TO A DECREE - Of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause, SIMMONS against WILLYAMS, the creditors of GEORGE SIMMONS, late of Trevella, in the county of Cornwall, Esquire, who died in or about the month of January, 1854, are by their Solicitors, on or before the 30th day of October, 1857, to come in and prove their debts, at the Chambers of the Master of the Rolls, in the Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Thursday, the 5th day of December, 1857, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 8th day of August, 1857. GEO. HUME, Chief Clerk. HOOKE, STREET and GUTTERES, Philpot Lane, London, Agents for FRANCIS HEARLE COCK, Truro, Plaintiff's Attorney. ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY - A scene of some little interest was exhibited in the province of Minas Geras, Brazil, on the 24th of June last (St. John the Baptist's Day). It is one to which our readers are accustomed in our country, but which within the tropics is certainly of very rare occurrence, if not entirely unprecedented. It was a Sunday school festival just after the Cornish custom. At a locality about three hundred miles from Rio De Janeiro, far up on the hilly country of the gold mines of Brazil, are the works of the English Company called the St. John Del Rey Mining Company, established now for twenty-five years, at Morro Velho, i.e. the Ancient Hill. Here reside about one hundred (chiefly Cornish) miners and mechanics, many of whom are married. In the period abovenamed, families have grown up around them, so that on the 24th, about sixty children, boys and girls assembled, with the peculiarities of the Saxon race still strongly marked in them, namely flaxen hair and blue eyes. These formed in procession, headed by the chaplain, the Rev. EDWARD PUTTOCK, late of St. Sidwell's Exeter, who was supported on either side by an officer of the establishment, and followed immediately by the two under mining captains, MARTIN and HOSKEN, and other members of the committee. The band (amateur) came next, and then the children with banners with appropriate texts, and one in Portuguese "Deos vos Guarde," or God protect you, as expressive of good will to those whose country was thus made the scene of a thoroughly English custom. After thus walking round the establishment and through the mine (a very fine collection of stamps and surface works, which in Gardner's book on Brazil, extracted into that well-known publication, "Chambers' Information for the People," formed that author's example of gold extracting in Brazil), proceeded to the camps, or plain, overlooking the whole establishment, where was erected, chiefly by the voluntary labour of Englishmen, miners, mechanics, and officers, a very pretty rustic looking enclosure, roofed by boughs and supported by poles. Three tables of fifty feet long each, placed side by side, were laid out with tea, oranges, and plum cake. The ingenuity and taste in decoration with flowers and a little drapery were much admired - the work of two of the officers of the establishment, Mr. BUCKWALD and Mr. LAURIE. Several of the Brazilians were present at the tea, and amongst them the Roman Catholic vicar of the neighbouring parish. As the procession would round the various hills and along the paths, parties of Brazilians were clustering on the higher eminences watching with much interest to them so novel a scene. After singing a grace, ample justice was done to the cakes, but this as being no novelty requires no description, and when the children had finished, the parents, officers, and visitors partook of the same moderate fare; these numbered over one hundred. Addresses were delivered by various speakers, by Dr. WALKER superintendent to the children; by the Chaplain; by Capt. TRELOAR, a most interesting address to the men; and by Mr. HENRY COCKING, the leading teacher at the Sunday school, to the children. It should be stated that the expenses of this festival were borne by voluntary contributions. Amidst the temptations which abound in Brazil to excess in various ways, it is a satisfaction to find that such a harmless, indeed laudable, way of spending a holiday, met with so general an approval and support. TEA MEETING - A public tea meeting was held at St. Mary's Scilly, on Wednesday the 5th instant, in a large loft belonging to Mr. THOMAS EDWARDS, which was tastefully decorated with flags of various nations, evergreens, and flowers. About 200 partook of tea. The trays were presented by the ladies for the benefit of the Wesleyan circuit funds, and after tea a meeting was held, when addresses were delivered by the Wesleyan and Bible Christian ministers and others. THE PORTHLEAVEN REGATTA - In reference to a circumstance which occurred at this regatta last week, the owner of the "Albion," Mr. ROBERT BOWDEN writes as follows:- "With regard to your notice of the accident which occurred to the "Albion" fishing boat on the regatta day at Porthleaven, I beg to inform you that although the tiller was given up to an unprofessional, as you were pleased to call him, there was no blame attached to the helmsman; but to myself in having the sheets all fast, and but for the presence of mind displayed by the unprofessional in pulling up the boat astern, and calling upon the rest to jump into her, thereby lightening the larger boat, the "Albion" must have gone down, which would have been a serious loss to me." TESTIMONIAL TO A POSTMASTER - On the 11th inst., a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bodmin and its vicinity was held in the Guildhall, for the purpose of presenting to Mr. THOMAS PEARSE, late postmaster of that town a testimonial for his services during the time he occupied the office. The Mayor, Mr. EDYVEAN, presided, and there was a respectable attendance of the inhabitants. The Mayor spoke of Mr. Pearse as being very deserving the testimonial he was about to present to hi, and said he was sure that he re-echoed the feelings of all present, and of the numerous subscribers, when he stated that in Mr. Pearse the public met with a kind and obliging person: not one had met with a rebuff at his hands, and no one cared more for the public convenience than he did. He only hoped that he would live long to enjoy it, and that it might hereafter be handed down to his children that they might try to receive the same reward for their services as he has in his life time. Mr. COMMINS also bore testimony to Mr. Pearse's urbanity and kindness of manner; whether in the hour of extreme business or leisure, he always met the public with a smiling countenance, and afforded them great facilities through his most obliging and willing acts. The Mayor here said that there was a purse of sovereigns to be handed to Mr. Pearse, being the surplus of the subscription. Mr. PETHYBRIDGE and Mr. PARKINS briefly addressed the meeting, both of whom bore the highest testimony to Mr. Pearse's conduct, and the Mayor presented to Mr. Pearse the testimonial, a silver tea service, comprising a tea pot, coffee pot, sugar basin, milk ewer, and salver, on each of which was engraved the following inscription:- Presented to Mr. Thomas Pearse by numerous subscribers in testimony of their high estimation of his service as Postmaster of Bodmin for a period of twenty years. 11 August, 1857." Mr. Pearse then rose to return thanks. He confessed he was hardly deserving the praise which had been bestowed on him that evening, but he believed that during the period he had held the office, he had done all that lay in his power to accommodate and oblige the public. He then went on to state the increase of business that had taken place, since he took office, and said he had resigned it in consequence of not receiving sufficient remuneration. The salary was only GBP74 per year, out of which he had to pay the rent of office, and all incidental expenses. A few months prior to his resignation he had applied for an advance of salary, and on the Postmaster-General only offering him GBP17. 10s. he resigned. He felt proud of the testimonial presented to him, and trusted it would be handed down to his children's children. He sat down amidst the plaudits of the assembly, and the meeting then separated. The manufacturers of the testimonial were Messrs. Williams and Co., of Bristol. It cost GBP45, and is of very chaste and elegant design and manufacture. TRURO POLICE - On Monday last, before Mr. CHAPPEL and Mr. SPRY, CAROLINE BROWNE, of Penryn, aged 16, ELIZABETH JANE EDY, of the same age, and LOUISA LAMPSHIR, who said her age was 17, were charged with disorderly and indecent conduct, and using obscene language, to the annoyance of the public, in the road opposite the West Cornwall Railway station, at Newham, near Truro. The charge was proved by SHOLL, of the railway polices, and a porter called BUTLER. The magistrates fined the prisoners 2s. 6d. each with expenses, It being their first offence; they also reprimanded them, and told them they would be much more severely punished if they offended again. FATAL ACCIDENT - On the 11th instant, Mr. RICHARD PIKE, of Davidstow, was in the act of removing some of the timber from Great Roughtor Consols mine, when the sollar on which he was standing, gave way, and he was instantly precipitated into the shaft. His friends and some men from Bray Down Mine, have used ever exertion to recover the body, but the shaft being nearly full of water, they have not yet succeeded. His father was quite close to him at the time of the accident, but could render no assistance. CORONER'S INQUEST - An inquest was held on Wednesday last, at the Commercial Hotel, Camborne, before Mr. HICHENS, county coroner, on the body of Anna, relict of Mr. GEORGE BAILEY, late of Camborne. Mary Ann Bailey, step-daughter of deceased, stated that she lived with Mr. LUGG; she went on Wednesday morning about ten o'clock, into the house of her mother-in-law, and found her in her usual health. About half an hour she called again, and found her in the kitchen on the floor; she attempted to lift her up but could not. She then called at the back door to a neighbour named ISABELLA NANCARROW, and they took her into the passage for air. Mary Ann Bailey ran to fetch the doctor, and Mr. HUTCHINSON's apprentice soon arrived and ordered warm water and mustard to her feet. Mrs. Nancarrow, however, believes she was dead before he arrived, and that she did not live more than twenty minutes after they found her. She never spoke, but appeared senseless, and it is supposed she fell off a chair on the floor. Verdict, "died by the visitation of God." EXETER DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY - Thursday, August 13. - Re:- RICHARD NATTLE WILLIAMS, tailor and draper, Liskeard. This was a sitting for certificate. Mr. STOGDON, solicitor, of Exeter, opposed the bankrupt on behalf of Messrs. KENDALL, TUCKER and NORRIS, woollen drapers of Exeter, who were the largest creditors. Mr. HIRTZEL, the official assignee, read the following report:- This bankrupt's balance sheet represents only a period of one year and ten months, and commenced with a capital of GBP60 case and GBP20 household furniture. The profits of trade are GBP113. 7s. 6d.; exchange of mining shares, GBP3. 5s.; gift from wife's mother, GBP15 - total, GBP131. 12s. 6d. This amount does not meet the household expenses of GBP147. 14s., and consequently the trade expenses GBP57. 16s. 9d. are wholly unprovided for. There are in addition, losses GBP36. 5s. 10. The trade expenses sheet shows alteration of premises GBP6; expenses of bill of sale to WILLIAM DONEY, GBP6. 4s. 3d.; and interest GBP11. The charge for maintenance, at 25s. per week, is calculated at a low rate. The creditor's accounts are GBP105. 12s. 2d. and the assets are - debts called good, GBP54. 19s. 4d., and mining shares, GBP14. 5s. 6d. The furniture and stock were seized and sold under a bill of sale, by Mr. Doney. The assets will not pay the expenses. The causes of bankruptcy are stated to be insufficient capital and small returns. Mr. Stogdon said the commissioner would recollect that in this case he had examined Doney, the person to whom bankrupt gave the bill of sale at Plymouth. The bankrupt himself had never been examined, for shortly after he gave the bill of sale he went away from Liskeard. Subsequently, however, he obtained permission to file his balance sheet and to come up on the present occasion. The Bankrupt was then examined by Mr. Stogdon. He stated that he had a wife and two children and carried on business at Liskeard, purchasing cloth of Messrs. KENDALL and CO., of Exeter, and using it to make up garments and to execute repairs for his customers. He had dealt with the firm in question since 1854. He was twenty-eight years of age and before he commenced business he was living at Liskeard. He had heard from the official assignee's report that his household expenses alone were more than his profits. The rent of his shop was GBP12 a year, and he had four, five, or six persons to work for him, according as trade was brisk or otherwise. He kept a few made-up articles for show in his shop, but he mostly executed orders. Doney was an auctioneer at Liskeard, and bankrupt gave him a bill of sale for GBP50, not quite a week before he left the town. He (bankrupt) received GBP15 as a consideration for the bill. He had borrowed two sums of GBP15 each from one MURRAY, a money lender, but bankrupt's mother-in-law had agreed to pay one of these amounts. Murray made the bankrupt, on receiving the bonus, sign a paper to the effect that unless the interest of the money was paid regularly, and the capital when required, that he (Murray) should be entitled to take bankrupt's goods. Bankrupt had paid Murray GBP15 as interest, and finding himself in difficulties, and being desirous to act for the benefit of his creditors generally, he gave the bill of sale to Doney that he might sell his (bankrupt's) traps, and after securing GBP15 for himself, hand the residue over to his (Bankrupt's) creditors. Bankrupt wanted the GBP15 he had of Doney to go away while his affairs were being settled. The Official Assigner informed the court that he had heard that Mr. Doney realised GBP28. 14s. 3d. by the sale, but that after he had enough to reimburse him the sum he had lent bankrupt. Mr. Stogdon said the bankrupt owed Messrs. Kendall and Co. between GBP50 and GBP60. The official assignee stated, with reference to the book debts, that many persons who had been charged in bankrupt's books with owing certain sums had said they had paid the amounts, but bankrupt stated that he was prepared to swear to the correctness of his accounts. The Bankrupt, in to the Commissioner, said he went to Sydenham to reside with his sister, and he surrendered because he had no chance of doing anything unless he did so. The Commissioner thought the bankrupt had acted under bad advice, but still he had acted fraudulently in giving up his property in the manner he had done, and therefore his certificate would be suspended for three months. He should, however, give the bankrupt protection during that period.