West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Friday 28th February, 1851. Part Two ARSON - On Monday last, JOHN WILLIAMS, of St. Stephens in Branwell, was brought before Mr. E. COODE, jun., charged with having on the 18th instant, maliciously set fire to a rick of hay and mow of corn, the property of Mr. PHILIP WILLIAMS of Resugga Lane End, St. Stephens. There is no doubt the fire was the act of an incendiary. Tracks of footsteps were visible near the corn; two sheaves which had been taken from the mow the same afternoon and laid near had been evidently removed and there were many circumstances which excited strong suspicion against the prisoner, but nothing to warrant his committal. He was therefore discharged. The value of the corn and hay burnt is about GBP30. TRURO POLICE - On Saturday last, a lad called HENRY FARR, living in Goodwives' Lane, was committed under the Juvenile Offenders' Act for a month to hard labour, on the charge of stealing a watch from WILLIAM WALE, shoemaker. Prosecutor lives in Goodwives' Lane only a few doors from the prisoner. He closed his door on Friday evening, but left it unlocked, and went down into the town; whilst he was absent, prisoner went in and took the watch. In the evening he sold the case for 3s. 6d. to Mr. SCHWERER in the Church-lane; and Mr. Schwerer sold it next day as old silver to a Jew whom he did not know. Prisoner sold the body of the watch for 3s. and an accordion to ISAAC LUDFORD, keeper of a bazaar open near the White Hart. Ludford's wife took the watch to Mr. EDWARDS, jeweller, &c., and wished to exchange it for a smaller one for her little girl. Mr. Edwards having received information from the police that a watch had been stolen, detained this watch and sent to the police station, in consequence of which the prisoner was afterwards apprehended. BARTLETT PASCOE, who was apprehended with two others for fowl stealing from the premises of Mr. COLLINS, at Truthan, has been admitted to bail, to appear and answer the charge at the ensuing assizes. DARING ROBBERY AT PROBUS - On Friday morning last, between one and two o'clock, Mr. THOMAS STEPHENS's mill was unexpectedly struck idle, in consequence of a deficiency of water. The miller supposing that some portion of the mill leat had broken out, was induced to lock up and secure the mill, and retire to rest. But on examination by day light, it was discovered that the hatch for letting out water had been drawn up, evidently with the desire to induce the miller to leave the mill; and on further examination, Mr. Stephens found that every door and window had been wrenched with an iron bar; but these being too securely fastened, the thief then finding his way to a door on the ground floor, situated at the back part of the mill, he there used such violence with an iron two-bail and the coulter of a plough, as to break the door in pieces. After ransacking the mill, he succeeded in carrying off some wheaten meal, but what beside, it is not easy to ascertain. We regret to say the thief is not as yet detected. ST. Ives - For some time past this town and neighbourhood have been infested with a number of beggars, many of them strong and sturdy men. On Thursday last, a fellow answering the name of JAMES MOORE, was more than ordinarily impudent in his vocation, and information having been given of his conduct, he was apprehended in the evening at the house of one PETER LUGG, who is in the habit of lodging beggars. The next morning (Friday), Moore was brought before the magistrates for the borough, and was by them committed to Bodmin for one month at hard labour, as an idle and disorderly person. The bench expressed their determination to endeavour to put a stop to vagrancy in the borough, by inflicting on those that may be brought before them the utmost punishment that they are empowered to do; and have caused notice to be given to Lugg of their intention to fine him in the full penalty, if he be know to harbour vagrants in future. HIGHWAY ROBBERY - On the night of Friday last, a young man called GEORGE BRYANT, of Trelyon, near St. Ives, when on his way home from the town, between ten and eleven o'clock, was attacked by a man who he succeeded in beating off, but before he could get away two others came up, and having knocked him down and beaten him with a stone until he was senseless, they robbed him of GBP2. 9s. 0d., being nearly the whole of his pay, received at one of the neighbouring mines in the course of that day. The thieves have not yet been detected. Bryant's clothes were literally torn from his back. COMMITTAL - On Saturday last, MATTHEW RICH, of Mevagissey, was committed by Mr. TREMAYNE, to the house of correction to be kept to hard labour for three weeks, for running away from the St. Austell Union Workhouse, and taking with him sundry articles of clothing, the property of the Guardians. A NOTORIOUS CHARACTER - A woman called SARAH YEO has been committed by the magistrates at Launceston to the county gaol, for three months hard labor, she having assaulted one of the inmates of the Union. This is the nineteenth time she has been sent to prisoner for various offences. VILLAINOUS OUTRAGE - On Monday last, about half-past eight in the evening, some malicious scoundrel discharged a gun or pistol into the window of Mr. JOHN WAYLIN, builder, Carharrack. It is supposed that the pistol or gun was fired by some one on horseback, as two persons were seen riding furiously from the direction of the house immediately after the report was heard. A reward has been offered by Mr. Waylin for information which may lead to the conviction of the offender. ACCIDENTS - On Friday last, a young man named JAMES HAMBLY, employed at Messrs. HARVEY and CO's. Factory, Hayle, had his hand much bruised at the steam grinding stone, and his fingers much injured, one of them so seriously that it was obliged to be amputated close to the hand. On Saturday last, a young man named NICHOLAS BRYANT, employed at Messrs. SANDYS, CARNE, and VIVIAN's Factory, whilst attending to the planing machine, his hand be some means became entangled in the machinery, and one of his fingers sustained such injury that a part of it was obliged to be amputated. On Monday last, one of the men employed on the West Cornwall Railway, named PATRICK O'CALLAGHAN, was engaged in lowering a large tank, when the tackle gave way, and the tank fell, and struck his right leg, causing a compound fracture just above the ankle. The above cases are under the care of Dr. R. O. MILLETT, of Penpol, and are going on favourably. As a poor man named EDWARD HUTHOR, of Treloweth, was on Wednesday last, attending with others to a thrashing machine belonging to Messrs. HOSKING, at Gunwin, in the parish of Lelant, while in the act of thrusting a wad of straw to stop the drum after the horses had ceased to move the machine, his arm was drawn in by the drum and was smashed so dreadfully that the medical gentlemen in attendance deemed an immediate amputation necessary, a little below the elbow. NARROW ESCAPE FROM BEING POISONED - At Launceston, a short time since, a little girl named MARTHA BLEWITT, nearly lost her life under the following circumstances:- Some one had given her a penny, with which she procured a bottle of scent, marked on the label, "Essence of Jasmine." When playing at home, in the midst of her brothers and sisters, she placed the bottle to her lips and swallowed a small portion of the contents. Immediately she complained of a bitter taste in the mouth, and a burning pain in the stomach; in the course of a few minutes was taken very ill, vomited, grew speechless, and insensible. Convulsions came on, with locked jaw and rigid contraction of various muscles. Paroxysms returned with increasing severity, and had not reached their worst until after the expiration of an hour. About this time medical aid was called in, when it was all but too late to do any good. However the stomach was emptied of its contents by means of a strong emetic, and in about half an hour more the convulsions subsided and consciousness returned. The next morning she was perfectly recovered. The quantity of liquid gone from the bottle was not at most more than thirty drops, and some of this was rejected very shortly after being swallowed, the poison therefore must have been extremely virulent. That it was not essence of jasmine, is evident from the price of that article, viz., four shillings an ounce; and that it contained neither oil of bitter almonds nor prussic acid, was ascertained by chemical testing. Such virulent substances ought not to be sold without poison marked on the label. (newspaper creased here -) CORONERS' INQUESTS - On Monday an inquest was held by Mr. JOHN CARLYON, county coroner, at the George and Dragon Inn, St. Austell-street, Truro, on the body of WILLIAM GATLEY, aged 50 years, who hung himself to a beam in a linhay behind his house on Clement-street, on Sunday morning. From the evidence, it appeared that the deceased had until recently, been a quiet and industrious man; but that lately, there had been a great deal of quarrelling in his family, and he had become quite an altered man. William Gatley, jun., son of the deceased, deposed as follows: I lived with my father, mother, sister, and little brother. My father was in the habit of getting up about five o'clock in the mornings. I heard him go down stairs yesterday morning about ten minutes past five. He called to my brother who was sleeping with me, for the keys of the cow-house: they were given to him, and he then went down stairs. My brother got up and went down stairs about twenty minutes past five; he found that father had gone out backward, and waited for him to come in; after waiting for some time, and father not coming in, he called up to me to know what he should do; I told him to go out and see where he was. He said he was afraid; he called out to father that it was past six o'clock, but received no answer. I then got up and went down, and on going out backward, I saw the linhay doors open. On looking in, I saw deceased hanging to a beam; I was afraid to go in, and went out into the street and called for assistance. WILLIAM ISAAC and WILLIAM THOMAS came in, and the former cut him down. My father had been complaining of his head for the last three or four days; he had been in a very depressed state of mine; he was in arrear of rent and fancied he was going back in the world. His manner had been such of late that I had suspicion of what had happened, when I found he was out backward so long. One of the jurymen asked the witness whether there had not been a good deal of quarrelling, and whether he had not given his father a black eye last Thursday. Witness denied that he had; he said that the black eye which the jury had seen was caused by one of the cows kicking his father as he was righting up the bedding. The witness admitted that he and his father had a quarrel on Thursday, and that after his father had thrown a cabbage at him, he seized him by the collar and shook him; but he denied that he struck him. MARTIN TEAGUE, one of the jurymen, deposed:- On Thursday last, deceased called to me, told me he was in difficulties and expected to have a distress put in that day for tithes. He appeared to be greatly excited, and requested me to accompany him into Ferris's public-house, as he wanted to tell me more. He then told me that he was a ruined man, and stated many things concerning his wife and his son William, and their conduct towards him, and said he must separate from his wife. From his manner on that occasion, witness had no doubt that he was beside himself. THOMAS JENKIN, stated that on Friday he saw deceased, who was then in a very excited state, and said he should sell every thing he had, and after paying his debts go into the Union-house. He complained of injuries which he said his son had inflicted on him - a black eye, a cut on the back part of his head, and some injuries to his teeth; but he said he should give out that the cow had kicked him, that the public might not know there had been family quarrels. He was then in a very excited state and crying. William Isaac, deposed to his having been informed soon after six o'clock on Sunday morning, by William Gatley, that his father had hung himself and to his having proceeded immediately to the linhay, and where he cut him down. He was hanging from a beam, by a bit of cord, his legs just touching the ground; he was quite dead. - Verdict, "temporary insanity." The following inquest has been held before Mr. HICHENS, county coroner:- On Saturday last, in the parish of Wendron, on the body of MARY PATTEN, aged 83 years, who was found dead in her bed on the preceding day. The deceased lived alone in a dwelling-house having two apartments, but she and one ALICE GOLDSWORTHY who occupied the other part of the house went to their bed-rooms by the same flight of stairs. The deceased, who was in her usual good health on Thursday, went to bed that evening about six o'clock, and the following morning Alice Goldsworthy, as she was accustomed to do, called to her at her bed-room door, which was closed, and getting no answer after several repetitions she became alarmed and went in search of some one from an adjoining house. She soon met with a person named MARY PHILLIPS, who accompanied her to the deceased's bed-room where they found her in bed lifeless, having apparently been dead some hours. The jury returned a verdict "found dead," but not the lease doubt was entertained that the deceased's death was a natural one. The following inquests have been held before Mr. HAMLEY, county coroner:- On Tuesday last, at the Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin, on SUSAN JAMES, a patient. It appeared that she was admitted as a pauper lunatic from Illogan, about a year and half since. She was subject to epileptic fits. On the morning of the 24th, the night nurse in going into her room found her sleeping and apparently well. On another nurse going into her room about seven o'clock she found her out over the bed. The nurse got assistance, put her into bed, and sent for Mr. TYERMAN, the surgeon, who promptly attended and found her dead. Mr. Tyerman deposed to the jury, that she had frequent epileptic fits, was a very stout young woman, and predisposed to apoplexy, which caused her death. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. On the same day, at Charlestown, in the parish of St. Austell, on THOMAS HOSKING, a lad eleven years of age who was supposed to have died from a blow received from a man named LEE, sometime before. GRACE HOSKING deposed, that she was a widow and mother of the deceased. He had always been a healthy boy. About three weeks since he was taken ill and complained of his head. She thought it was a cold, and went to Mr. VAWDREY, surgeon, and got some medicine; but he still complained of his head. Three days before he died Mr. Vawdrey came to see him, and asked witness whether she knew that her son had ever received any injury in the head. She told him no. He asked her that question every time he came; and she always told him that she had never heard that he had received any injury. WILLIAM UREN, a boy aged fourteen, said - I was at work at Bucklers mine. The deceased Thomas worked there also. About a month since, we were working with a miner called NICHOLAS LEE, doing something about the stamps. Lee told deceased to do something to the lifter; deceased said he could not raise it, when Lee struck him on the head with the mallet which he had in his hand, but whether with the iron part of the handle, I could not tell. He worked afterwards with me and never complained, and did not appear to be hurt. He has done so ever since until last week and played with the other boys as usual. I never said anything about Lee striking him to any one but JANE VIVIAN, a girl who works at the mine, until I heard of his death. Jane Vivian said she worked at Buckler's Mine. About three weeks since Uren told her that Lee had struck deceased with a mallet. She had seen him frequently since at the mine. Mr. Vawdrey, surgeon, deposed that about three weeks since, Grace Hosking came to him for some opening medicine for her son, as she thought he had a cold. About six days since I was called to see him. I found him in a state of insensibility, as I considered, from fracture on the brain. I asked if he had ever received any injury on the head. He mother said no; I think it was in consequence of his walking some distance in a cold day without his hat. I told her I thought he was in the greatest danger, and saw him from time to time until his death. I found him in the same state, and always asked the mother whether he had received a blow; but she always said no. Since the boy's death a report has come out that Lee had struck him with a mallet, in consequence of which I deemed it necessary that an inquest should be held. I have now by order from the coroner, made a post mortem examination. I have found no external marks of violence whatever; nor is there any fracture of the skull. On opening the head I found the brain gorged with blood, and the whole of it a mass of disease, which was the cause of his death, and that the blow could not have had anything to do with it. The jury were satisfied and returned a verdict that he died from natural causes. THE LAND'S END - Leaving the Logan Stone, we next shaped our course for the Land's End. We stopped on our way, to admire the desolate pile of rocks and caverns which form the towering promontory, called "Tol-Peden-Penwith;" or, "The Holed Headland on the Left." Thence, turning a little island, passing over wild, pathless moors, occasionally catching distant glimpses of the sea, with the mist sometimes falling thick down to the very edges of the waves; sometimes parting mysteriously and discovering distant crags of granite rising shadowy out of the foaming waters - we reached, at last, the limits of our outward journey, and saw the Atlantic before us, rolling against the westernmost extremity of the shores of England." Before you, the wide, wild ocean stretches gloriously and afar; the largest of the Scilly Islands being barely discernible on the extreme horizon, on clear days. Tracts of heath; fields where corn is blown by the wind into mimic waves; downs, valleys, and crags, mingle together picturesquely and confusedly, until they are lost in the distance, on your left. On your right is a magnificent bay, bounded at either extremity by far-stretching promontories, starting upward from a beach of the purest white sand, on which the yet whiter foam of the surf is ever seething, as waves on waves break altogether, in long and regular order, one behind the other. The whole bold view possesses all the sublimity that vastness and space can bestow; but it is that sublimity which is to be seen, not described, which the heart may acknowledge and the mind contain, but which no mere words may delineate, which even painting itself may be faintly reflect. However, it is, after all, the walk to the Land's End along the southern coast, rather than the Land's End itself, which displays the grandest combinations of scenery in which this grandest part of Cornwall abounds. There nature appears in her most triumphant glory and beauty - there, every mile, as you proceed, offers some new prospect, or awakens some fresh impression. All objects that you meet with, great and small, moving and motionless, seem united in perfect harmony to form a scene which presents a wild primeval aspect - a scene where original images might still be found by the poet; and where original pictures are waiting, ready composed for the painter's eye. On approaching the wondrous landscapes between Trereen and the Land's End, the first characteristic that strikes you, is the change that has taken place in the forms of the cliffs since you left the Lizard Head. You no longer look on variously shaped and variously coloured 'serpentine' rocks; it is granite, and granite alone, that you see everywhere - granite, less lofty and less eccentric in form than the 'serpentine' cliffs and crags, but presenting an appearance of adamantine solidity and strength, a mighty breadth of outline and an unbroken vastness of extent, nobly and impressively adapted to the purpose of protecting the shores of Cornwall, where they are most exposed to the fury of the Atlantic waves. In these wild districts, the sea rolls and roars in fiercer agitation than ever; and the mists fall thicker, and, at the same time fade and change faster, than elsewhere. Vessels pitching heavily in the waves, are seen to dawn, at one moment, in the clearing atmosphere - and then, at another, to fade again mysteriously, as it abruptly thickens like phantom ships. Up on the tops of the cliffs, furze and heath in brilliant clothing of purple and yellow, cluster close round great white, weird masses of rock, dotted fantastically with patches of grey-green moss. The solitude on these heights is unbroken - no houses are to be seen - often, no pathway is to be found. You go on, guided by the sight of the sea, when the sky brightens fitfully; and by the sound of the sea, when you stray instinctively from the edge of the cliff, as mist and darkness gather once more densely and solemnly all around you. Then, when you discover a path again - a winding path, that descends rapidly - you gradually enter on a new scene. Old horses startle you, scrambling into perilous situations, to pick dainty bits by the hill side; sheep, fettered by the fore and hind leg, hobble away desperately as you advance. Suddenly, you discern a small strip of beach shut in snugly between protecting rocks. A spring bubbles down from an inland valley. Not far off, an old stone well collects the water into a calm, clear pool - sturdy little cottages, built of rough granite, and thickly thatched, stand near you - gulls' and cormorants' eggs are set in their loop-holed windows for ornament; great white sections of fish hang thickly together on their walls to dry, looking more like many legs of many dirty duck trousers, than anything else - pig-styes are hard by the cottages, either formed by the Cromlech stones of the druids, or excavated like caves in the side of the hill. Down on the beach, where the rough old fishing boats lie, the sand is entirely formed by countless multitudes of the tiniest, fairy-like shells, often as small as pin's head, and all exquisitely tender in colour and wonderfully varied in form. Up the lower and flatter parts of the hills above fishing nets are stretched to dry. While you stop to look forth, over the quiet, simple scene, wild little children peep out at you in astonishment; and hard-working men and women greet you with a hearty Cornish salutation, as you pass near their cottage doors. You walk a few hundred yards inland, up the valley, and discover in a retired sheltered situation, the ancient village church, with its square grey tower surmounted by moss-grown turrets, with its venerable Saxon stone cross in the churchyard - where the turf graves rise humbly by twos and threes, and where the old coffin-shaped stone stands midway at the entrance gates, still used, as in former times, by the bearers of a rustic funeral. Appearing thus amid the noblest scenery, as the simple memorial of the prayers of a simple race, this is a church which speaks of religion in no formal or sectarian tone - which appeals to the heart of every traveller, be his creed what it may, in loving and solemn accents; and sends him on his way again, up the mighty cliffs, and through the mist driving cloud-like over them, the better fitted for his journey forward here - the better fitted, it may be, even for that other dread journey of one irrevocable moment - the last he shall ever take to his abiding-place among the spirits of the dead! These are some of the attractions which home rambles can offer to tempt the home traveller; for these are the impressions produced, and the incidents presented during a walk to the Land's End. - Rambles beyond Railways, by W. WILKIE COLLINS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA - We have accounts from New York on the 8th inst. The papers are full of articles relative to the fate of the United States steam-ship "Atlantic." Deeper gloom had been caused by the arrival of the "Canada" at Halifax without tidings of her. A revenue cruiser, which had been despatched from Halifax on a cruise in search of her, had returned from Sable Island unsuccessful also; and the general alarm appeared to be gradually giving way to despondency. Discussions relative to the merits of the ship as a sea-boat, generally complimentary, are frequent in the columns of the journals and much stress appears to be placed on the discovery of a wreck in the ocean, cut down, apparently, by collision with some steamer. Of course, however, the journalists unanimously persisted in "hoping against hope," and in their efforts to quiet the public anxiety some of them exactly predicate the real facts of the ship's disaster. Her safety would be announced about the 15th instant.