Penzance, in the hundred of Penwith, 289 miles from London, is thus mentioned by Leland, in his Itinerary :— "Penzantes, about a myle from Moousehole, standing fast in the shore of Mount Bay, ys the westest market towne of all Cornwall, and no socur for botes or shypes, but a forced pere or key. Ther ys but a chapel yn the sayd towne, as ys yn Newlyn. For theyr paroche chyrches be more than a myle off." By some writers the name of this town is supposed to signify the "Saints Head," and this opinion is supported by the circumstance of "the Baptist's head in a charger" being the corporation arms; others conceive it to have originated in its situation, and from thence called Pensavas, or the Head of the Channel. It is situated on the north side of Mount's Bay, about 10 miles from Land's End. The streets are tolerably well paved, and the houses in general handsome and convenient buildings. There is a chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Mary, built within the last thirty or forty years, and a mother church at Madern, or Madron, besides several meetinghouses for dissenters. John Buller, Esq. of Morval, endowed a charity school here in 1711. The walks and rides in the neighbourhood are very agreeable.

Penzance is remarkable in history for being entered and burnt by the Spaniards, in 1595. Since this time it has gradually increased in population and extent; many persons being invited to settle here, on account of the cheapness of provisions, particularly fish (of which there is a great abundance of all sorts,) the mildness of the climate,and the fertility of the neighbouring lands.

In all these respects, it is not to be equalled by any other part of Great Britain. It is somewhat larger, but not so elegant a town as Truro. The corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, twelve aldermen, and twenty-four common-council men.

The great variety of shipping, ships of war, merchantmen, and fishing-boats, constantly lying in Mount's Bay, forms a very interesting scene.

The pilchard fishery is carried on at Penzance upon a very considerable scale, and another source of employment for the poor, is the manufacture of yarn and coarse woollen cloths. The traveller, when at Penzance, should see Lanoynquoit, Carn Boxancen, Lamorna Cove, and the Land's End.

At Kern Boscawen, by the seaside, about five miles from Penzance, is another curious druidical monument, consisting of two large flat stones, one of which rests upon the natural rock, and the other on three large stones, which form a firm and proper support for the weight of the horizontal stone. The top stone is too nicely supported to be the work of nature, and the open ing underneath is supposed to have been the seat of some chief priest among the druids, for the performance of religious ceremonies.

Upon the western side of Mount's Bay is the small fishing town of Newlin, within a mile and a half of Penzance, and the little village of Mousehole, or Modishole, rendered notable by antiquaries for having been the residence of old Dolly Pentreath, the last person known to speak the Cornish language.

About two miles before we reach Penzance, the great road becomes extremely interesting from the fine views we have of St. Michael's Mount and its beautiful bay. The country too becomes improved in every particular necessary to picturesque beauty, abounding in wood, and instances of superior cultivation.

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PENZANCE, the most westerly town in England, is a seaport, municipal borough and union town, situated on the north-west side of Mounts Bay, 326 miles from London, 130 from Exeter, 10 from the Land’s End, 18 south-west from Redruth, 47 south-west from Bodmin and 27 south-west from Truro, and the western terminus of the Great Western railway (West Cornwall section), and is head of a county court district, in the Western division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of West Penwith, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. The name of the town, Pen-sans, is said to signify the “Holy Headland,” a chapel having formerly stood on the point which now forms the base of the Old Pier. In, later days this place was denominated " Buriton,” a corruption of the name “Borough Town.” The Barbican cellars, near the quay, indicate the site of the former castle. In July, 1595, a party of Spaniards landed at Mousehole, about three miles distant, and having laid waste that village and Newlyn, attacked Penzance and ravaged it by fire and pillage: in 1646 the town was sacked by Fairfax.

The town extends about a mile east and west, nearly the same distance north and south, and is divided into two wards, the east and the west. The railway station is at the east end of the town, and through trains run from Penzance to the metropolis. At the west end is a promenade, 8,500 yards in extent, which is now (1897) being cemented over at a cost of £2,000. In 1896 a new walk was constructed, 740 feet in length, and forming a lower promenade, at a cost of £10,000. A steamer leaves twice a week in winter and three times a week in summer (except May and June, when there is a daily service) for the Isles of Scilly: the distance to St. Mary's, Scilly, is about 40 miles, and the average passage 4 hours.

Penzance was appointed to be a port Jan. 20, 1882, and the limits declared to commence at the western side of the Lizard Point, in the parish of Landewednack (being the western limit of the port of Falmouth), and to continue in a westerly direction round the Land’s End, and thence in a north-easterly direction to a place called Chapel-an-Gotha, in the parish of Perranzabuloe, and described in the Ordnance map as Chapel Rock (being the western limit of the port of Padstow), extending seaward to a distance of three miles from low-water mark from the coast, and including all islands, harbours, bays, rivers and creeks within the said limits. Fishing boats are distinguished by the letters P.Z.

The western arm of the pier, built in 1772 and extended in 1812, is constructed upon a vein of felspar porphyry, which at low water is exposed to view: a roadway, viaduct and swing-bridge, connecting the southern and northern portions of the harbour, were completed in 1881, and a floating space of 3 1/3 acres in extent, with a depth of water over the dock sill of 21ft. was completed in 1884; upwards of £100,000 has been expended on the harbour. A lighthouse stands at the extremity of the southern extension, exhibiting a dioptric light of the fifth order, at an elevation of 33 feet above high water at ordinary spring tides, and showing a bright red for 80 degrees of the circle when there is a depth of 15 feet of water at the pier head (which occurs for quite eight hours out of the twelve), and when less than that depth displaying green instead of red. A black ball is exhibited by day when there is 15 feet depth of water at the pier head.

Penzance was first incorporated 9 May, 1614, which charter was confirmed in 1663 by Charles II. who constituted it an assaying or “coinage” town for tin, a position which it continued to hold till 1838 ; other charters have since been granted, and by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, the Corporation, acting also as the Port Authority, now consists of a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors. The borough has also a commission of the peace and a separate court of quarter sessions. A Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1896, and consists of 100 members. The borough of Penzance, formerly in the parish of Madron, now forms two separate civil parishes, viz. Penzance and Penzance-in-Madron.

St. Mary’s ecclesiastical parish was formed March 24, 1871, from the original parish of Madron; the church, rebuilt in 1834, is a large edifice of granite in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles and a lofty embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and a fine peal of 8 bells, hung in 1865 : the east window is stained and there are several memorial windows: a handsome serpentine font was placed in the church in 1874, and in 1885 a carved stone reredos was erected to commemorate the jubilee of the church, and was subsequently extended after designs by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter; the sculptured figures include the four evangelists, and the angels Gabriel and Raphael, to whom an earlier chapel was dedicated: in 1896 the pulpit was removed, and a raised chancel formed, the corporation seats being set further back: there are 2,000 sittings. In the churchyard stands an ancient but mutilated cross, supposed to have been connected with an earlier chapel, and on a pedestal is placed the capstone of the spire of the previous church. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1789; marriages and earlier records are incorporated with the registers of Madron. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £257, in the gift of the Bishop of Truro, with the approval of the vicar of Madron for the time being, and held since 1895 by the Rev. William Henry Bolton M.A. of Queens’ College, Cambridge.

St. Paul's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed March 22, 1867, from the chapelry of Penzance in the parish of Madron; the church, in Clarence street, built in 1843, at a cost of £5,000, defrayed by the late Rev. Henry Batten, is an edifice of granite in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, north aisle, west porch and a western bell cote containing one bell: the pulpit and communion rails are of carved granite: the stained east window was presented at a cost of £400, there is also a memorial window to the Rev. Henry Batten, and most of the other windows are stained: the porch, erected in 1886, is a memorial to Miss Emily Borlase Bolitho: in 1893 a north aisle and transept were added at a cost of £1,500, from designs by Mr. I. W. Trouson F.R.I.B.A. architect: there are 400 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1867. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £273, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Henry Batten, and held since 1894 by the Rev. James Theodore Inskip M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

St. John the Baptist’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Feb. 14, 1882, from that of St. Mary; the church, at the top of Trewartha terrace, is a building of moor stone, with granite dressings, in the Early English style, erected in 1881 at a cost of £7,000, and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, transepts, aisles, east and west porches and has one bell: there are sittings for 600 persons. The register dates from the year 1881. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £320, in the gift of the Bishop of Truro, and held since 1896 by the Rev. Thomas Fisher Maddrell M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

The Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Rosevean road, is a large edifice of granite, in the Decorated style, erected in 1847, with a western turret containing one bell: the altar and the reredos of granite, serpentine and marble, was presented in 1869 by Sir Paul Molesworth bart.; there are 500 sittings.

The Baptist chapel, in Clarence street, was built in 1836, and has 600 sittings. The Congregational chapel, Market Jew street, was built in 1807, and will seat 450 persons. The Bible Christian chapel, High street, built in 1879, was enlarged, 1893, at an estimated cost of £1,100, under the direction of Mr. I. W. Trounson F.R.I.B.A. architect: a new organ has been provided at a cost of £370. The Primitive Methodist chapel, in Mount street, erected in 1839, has 550 sittings. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Chapel street, erected in 1814 and enlarged in 1864, is a building of granite, with a portico of the Doric order, and has sittings for 1,800 persons. The Free Methodist chapel, in Parade street, is a structure of granite, rebuilt in 1889 at a cost of £2,500, from the designs of Mr. Oliver Caldwell, architect, with a school room in the basement: there are sittings for 750 persons.

The Salvation Army barracks, in Queen street, established in 1881, will seat 1,600 persons.

The Cemetery, about half a mile from the town, is in the parish of Madron; in 1854 3a. 2r. 17p. of land was acquired at a cost of £1,100; the cost of inclosure and building two mortuary chapels and a lodge amounted to £1,800; in 1886 2a. 4p. of land was bought at a cost of £259 5s.; cost of laying out £190 15s.; the cemetery is under a Burial Board of nine members.

The Public Buildings, in Alverton street, begun in 1864 and completed in 1867 from the designs of the late Mr. John Matthews, then surveyor of the town, cost nearly £13,000, exclusive of furnishing, and are built entirely of granite, in the Italian style: the east wing is occupied by the Corporation offices proper. The insignia of the Corporation comprise two maces, a mayor’s chain and badge and a borough seal: the maces, of silver, are 19 inches in length and form a pair; the shafts are elaborately chased and divided by projecting bands, and the foot knops bear the cognizance of the town, “the head of S. John Baptist in a charger,” and the name of Thomas Grosse, mayor, 1670; the heads display the national emblems crowned, and above these a circlet and cresting; on the flat tops are the royal arms of the Stuarts: the mayor’s chain and badge, purchased in 1871, at a cost of £142, is of gold, and consists of a series of plain but massive links, the centre link bearing a shield of the arms of Cornwall:-“az. 15 bezants,” with the motto “One and all ’; from this depends a circular badge of gold and enamel, charged with the town arms and the legend “Pensans Anno Domini 1614”: the borough seal has the same arms and inscription: the mayor and other members of the Corporation wear black gowns, trimmed with velvet; and the sergeants-at-mace red gowns, laced, and three-cornered hats.

The centre block of the Public Buildings comprises a large concert hall, known as “St. John’s Hall,” seating 850 persons and containing a fine organ. The hall was redecorated about 1897, at a cost of £400, and there is a smaller or lecture hall seating 300, besides other rooms: chess and whist clubs, a debating society and other societies meet here: the west wing is devoted to the purposes of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, founded in Feb. 1814, by the late John Ayrton Paris M.D. some time president of the Royal College of Physicians, who died 24th Dec. 1856, and Mr. Ashurst Majendie, aided by the nobility, gentry and mine agents of the county; it now ranks amongst the most distinguished scientific institutions in the kingdom, and has a museum containing an excellent and extensive collection of geological and mineralogical treasures and a good library. The Natural History and Antiquarian Society, founded in 1839, occupies rooms in the east wing of the Public Buildings; the collection is chiefly of local interest, being especially rich in ancient querns and funereal urns. The Institute, established in 1848, has also reading and lecture rooms in the Public Buildings on the right hand side of the principal entrance: in the courtyard in front is a fountain, the basin of which, nearly 12 feet in diameter, is cut out of one block of granite.

The Penzance School of Art, established in 1852, was removed in 1880 to new premises at the top of Morrab road: the building is of granite and has a highly ornamental frontage with dressings of terra cotta. A wing was added in 1888 and used as an Art Museum, but has since been purchased for £900 by the town council, and a Free Library, formed in 1893, with the assistance of a bequest to the town by Octavius Allen Ferris esq. late of Highgate, London N, who left a similar amount to the towns of Truro, Falmouth, Redruth and Camborne, as a nucleus towards the formation of free libraries: the library comprises lending and reference departments and a news room, and has been fitted at a cost of £350: Thomas Bedford Bolitho esq. M.P. presented 1,000 volumes, and there are about 7,000 vols. A further addition to the main building is occupied by the Mining and Science Schools, established 7th Oct. 1890, at a cost for building and fittings of nearly £1,900: on the ground floor are the technical instruction hall and the lecture theatre: upstairs are chemical lecture rooms, class rooms and a laboratory filled with working benches for 24 students: a furnace room for metallurgical work and gold and silver assaying, balance room &c.: Andrew K. Barnett F.G.S. principal. Here are also the premises occupied by the Cornish Camera Club, comprising a dark room, studio and enlarging rooms for the use of members; visitors are also allowed the use of the rooms on payment of a small fee.

The Market House and Old Town Hall, erected in 1837, is a building of granite in a quasi-Doric style, standing at the top of Market Jew street, and has a central dome, from which very fine views of the country around Penzance may be obtained: immediately beneath the dome, on the ground floor, is a spacious and well regulated meat market, and above is a large chamber used as a corn market; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are market days; but the chief market is held on Thursday. The poultry, butter and fish markets are in a large building in Prince’s street. Cattle markets are held on the third Thursday in January, February, April, July, August, October and December. A fair is held on Corpus Christi day and the two days following.

In the Market place is a round-headed cross, 5 feet high and about 2 feet wide, with this inscription: “Hie procumbunt corpora piorum.”

The head quarters of A Company 1st Volunteer Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry are in the Corn Exchange, Market House buildings: here also is located No. 7 Company of the 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Volunteer Artillery, Western Division, Royal Artillery, the head quarters of which are at Causeway Head.

A battery has been constructed at Chyandour to represent the fighting deck of an ironclad, and is intended for the gunnery instruction of the Naval Reserve attached to the Penzance district; there is one 6in. breech-loader with Armstrong mountings, two 5in. breech-loaders with Vavasour mountings, three 1in. four-barrel Nordenfeldts, one five-barrel Gardiner, a drill shed 60 feet by 30 feet, and also a shed for two 9lb. field guns for target practice.

The public baths, on the western esplanade, were built at a cost, including site, of £5,000, and opened in July, 1887. A swimming bath, 75ft. by 28ft. was constructed in 1889; an 18in. earthenware pipe, which runs 350ft. into the sea, enables the swimming bath, which is below low-water mark, to be filled without pumping.

The Queen’s hotel, the largest on the esplanade, contains 100 bedrooms; the Western, Union and Mount Bay hotels afford every comfort to visitors and there are numerous temperance hotels, of which Perrow’s and Paul’s are the principal.

Penzance may be described as generally prosperous and the trade is increasing.

The principal trade of the town consists in the importation of coals, timber, tallow, hemp, iron, corn, flour, bale goods and groceries, and the exports are tin, copper, fish, serpentine, granite and leather: the pilchard fishery is also carried on to a considerable extent in the adjoining villages of Mousehole and Newlyn, where the fish are cured and exported in shiploads, chiefly to Italy; large quantities of fruit, flowers, potatoes and other vegetables and the produce of the mackerel fishery are dispatched hence by rail, amounting in the course of a year to upwards of 5,000 tons of potatoes, about 8,000 tons of broccoli and 9,000 tons of mackerel and other fish: large quantities of flowers, amounting to 450 tons yearly, are now exported from the Scilly islands, and the trade is rapidly increasing.

The shipping trade and the fishing industry are the main supports of Penzance. Shipbuilding is carried on on a limited scale. A dock has been completed since 1884, which greatly increases the facilities for discharging and shipping cargo. The Consolidated Tin Smelting Co. formed in 1891 by the amalgamation of Messrs. T. Bolitho & Sons, Penzance, the Trereife (R. R. Michell and Co.) and Messrs. Daubuz and Co. Carvedras, Truro, is now the largest company of this kind in the West of Cornwall, and has tin smelting works at Chyandour, near Penzance, and at Carvedras, near Truro. There are some large flour mills at Penzance and Gulval, the principal being those of Messrs. Geo. Bazeley and Son, Messrs. R. M. Branwell and Sons, and Messrs. Bodilly and Co. The Gulval Ice Co. has a store at Newlyn; and there are several foundries and saw mills.

The West Cornwall Infirmary, established in 1874, and the Dispensary, an older institution, dating from 1809, now form one establishment in St. Clare street: a new wing was added in 1887 at a cost of £1,000, the joint donation of Edward, Thomas and William Bolitho esqrs. and in 1896 a new wing, containing six bed rooms and offices for the use of the staff, was added at a cost of £650, there are 18 beds and 2 cots. During 1896 there were 180 in-patients and 2,000 out-patients: the institution is supported by voluntary contributions and is efficiently conducted.

The Infectious Diseases Hospital in Rosevean road was established in 1877, under the Urban Sanitary Authority, and during the past 20 years upwards of 63 patients have been treated.

The Edward Bolitho Memorial Convalescent Home was erected and endowed by T. B. Bolitho esq. M.P. in memory of his father, at a cost of £3,000 and opened in 1893. It is a building of red Paignton stone with Doulton stone dressings, and contains 8 beds, with separate day rooms for men and women. It is situated on the western slope of the town and commands an uninterrupted view of the bay.

The Dennis Charity, amounting to £48 yearly, is distributed in bread and money.

In 1889 Morrab House, with its grounds of four acres, situated on a gentle slope within view of the sea, were purchased by the Town Council at the cost of £4,000, and tastefully laid out from the plans by Mr. Reginald Upcher, with sub-tropical plants, flowering shrubs and flower beds; two ponds have been made and stocked with gold fish and in each are fountains. The house now contains the Penzance Library, removed from the Public Buildings and comprising nearly 23,000 volumes and many pamphlets; the books include the Dawson collection of autographs and portraits, consisting of 24 volumes; a rare collection of the dramatists of the Elizabethan period and Restoration, presented by the late J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, the Shakesperean scholar; and many valuable books purchased with the bequest of the late William Bolitho, of Ponsandane: attached is a reading room for the use of subscribers, supplied with the leading reviews and magazines.

Penzance was constituted a meteorological station in 1893; a rain gauge, thermometers &c. are placed in the Morrab gardens; barometers at the Public buildings and sunshine recorders on the dome of the Market house.

Sir Humphry Davy kt. and bart. was born in this town 17th Dec. 1778, and died at Geneva, May 29, 1829: a fine marble statue of the great philosopher, chemist and author, was erected in 1872, at a cost of about £600, in front of the Old Town hall, not far from the site of his birthplace, the sculptors being Messrs. Wills, of Euston road, London: the statue, which is 8 feet 8 inches high from the pedestal, is designed after Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait, painted for the Royal Society, and now at Burlington House and represents Sir Humphry in the well known costume of the portrait, with the right hand resting on a safety-lamp: the pedestal, about 10 feet high, is formed of the finest blue Lamorna granite.

The Penzance Club, at the south end of Alexandra road, was erected in 1896 at a cost of £2,000, from designs by Oliver Caldwell esq. A.R.I.B.A. and is a building of granite, containing billiard, reading and smoking rooms: the club now (1897) has 100 members, and visitors are admitted from periods of one to six months, on payment of a small subscription.

MOUNTS BAY is a large expanse of sea bounded by Tol Pedn Penwith on the west, and the Lizard on the east, and is noted for its invariably mild and equable climate : the principal feature in the bay is St. Michael’s Mount.

There are many delightful walks around Penzance; and the locality is generally recommended as a place of residence for invalids suffering from pulmonary and renal complaints.

During the season Jersey cars run to Gurnard’s Head, Logan Rock and Land’s End.

The area of the township is 401 acres of land and 850 of water; rateable value, Penzance civil, 48,336; Penzance-in-Madron, £460; the population of the borough in 1881 was 11,194; and in 1891, 12,432.

Petty Sessions are held at the Guildhall the first Wednesday in every month at 11 a.m. The following parishes are included in the petty sessional division:-Gulval, Ludgval, Marazion, Madron, Madron-in-Penzance, Morvah, Perranuthnoe, Paul, St. Buryan, St. Just, St. Michael’s Mount, St. Hilary, St. Levan, Sancreed, St. Sennen, Towednack, Zennor.

MASONIC

Masonic Hall, Princes street, opened in January, 1896, at a cost of £2,000, & will hold 200 persons; “Mount Sinai” Lodge (121), Martin Sampson, sec.; John Rogers, tyler; third Wednesday in month. Royal Arch, Holy mount, Chapter No. 121, held last Wednesday in January, April, July & October; Richard Walters, scribe E.

Mark Masonry.-St. John the Baptist Lodge; last Wednesday in February, May, August & November; Wm. Colenso, sec.

VOLUNTEERS

1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Volunteer Artillery, Western Division, Royal Artillery, No. 7 Company; Major P. Marrack, commandant.

1st Volunteer Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (A Co.) ; head quarters, Corn exchange, Market House buildings; Capt. Thomas Henry Cornish.

PENZANCE UNION

Board day, alternate Thursdays at 11 a.m. at the Rechabite hall, Penzance.

The Union comprises the following parishes:-St. Buryan, St. Erth (rural & urban), Gulval, St. Hilary, St. Ives, St. Just, St. Levan, Ludgvan, Madron & Madron-in-Penzance, Marazion, St. Michael’s Mount, Morvah, Paul, Penzance & Penzance-in-Madron, Perranuthnoe, Sancreed, St. Sennen, Towednack, Uny Lelant & Zennor. The population of the union in 1891 was 48,045; area, 64,870 acres; rateable value in 1897, £177,276.

PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services

St. Mary’s Church, Chapel street, Rev. William H. Bolton M.A. vicar; holy communion, 8 a.m.; morning prayer, 11 a.m.; children’s catechism, 3.30 p.m.; evening song, 6.30 p.m.; holy communion, 8 a.m. daily; morning prayer, 7.30 & evening prayer, 6.30.

St. John the Baptist Church, Trewartha terrace, Rev. Thomas Fisher Maddrell M.A. vicar; Rev. James Embry M.A. & Rev. John Herbert Dickinson, M.A. curates; 8 & 11 a.m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; daily 8 & 8.30 a.m. & Fri. 5.30 p.m.

St. Paul’s, Clarence street, Rev. James Theodore Inskip M.A. vicar; Rev. G. Hibbert Ware B.A. curate; 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; morning prayer, Mon. Tues. Thur. & Sat. 8 a.m.; Wed. & Fri. 12.15 p.m.; evening prayer, Tues. 7.30 p.m. with sermon; other week days, 6 p.m.

Immaculate Conception, Catholic, Rosevean road, Rev. Bernard Wade, priest; holy communion, 8.30 a.m.; mass, 11 a.m. & vespers & benediction, 6.30 p.m.; daily mass, 8 a.m. except Wednesdays; holidays of obligation, mass, 8 a.m. & benediction, 7 p.m.

Baptist, Clarence street, Rev. Alfred Bird; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Bethel, Battery square; 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Bible Christian, High street, Rev. John Ninnis; 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Congregational, Market Jew street, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Methodist New Connexion, Abbey street, Rev. Charles Bamford; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tues. 7.45 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Mount street, Rev. James A. Cheesman; 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

United Methodist Free Church, Parade street, Revs. Thomas Hollins & Edgar Whitton; 10.45 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tues. 7.15 p.m.

Wesleyan, Chapel street, Rev. John W. Genge, Rev. Hy. Wostenholm & Rev. Herbert H. Adams; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Tues. 7.15 p.m.

SCHOOLS

Grammar, Market place, founded in 1789; it has a small endowment bequeathed by Sir Humphry Davy & there are two free scholars.

Mining & Science Schools, School of Art buildings, Morrab road, Richard Pearce Couch & William H. Colenso, hon. secs.

School of Art, Morrab road, Henry Malcolm Geoffroi, headmaster; Richard Pearce Couch & William H. Colenso, hon. secs.

St. Mary’s National (boys), Queen street, built in 1871, for 270; average attendance, 296.

St. John’s National (boys, girls & infants), built in 1895, at a cost of £1,787 8s. 9d. the ground, valued at £600, being given by T. R. Bolitho esq.; the school will hold 120 boys, 80 girls & 86 infants; average attendance, 104 boys, 73 girls & 90 infants.

National (girls & infants), Abbey street, built in 1836, for 160 girls & 160 infants; average attendance, 106 girls & 152 infants.

Elizabeth (St. Paul’s), Taroveor road, built in 1876 & enlarged 1884, for 480 children; average attendance, 230 girls & 242 infants.

Wesleyan Day (mixed & infants), Chapel street, built in 1865 & enlarged in 1894, at a cost of £850, for 400 boys & girls & 134 infants; average attendance, 327 boys & girls & 96 infants.

Catholic (mixed), St. Mary’s street, near Church of Immaculate Conception, erected 1893, at a cost of £1,100, for III children; average attendance, 70.

WATER CONVEYANCE

Scilly Isles-West Cornwall Steam Ship Co. John Banfield, manager; office, 6 North parade; steamers leave Scilly in January, February, March & April on. Tues. Thur. & Sat.; returning from Penzance, Mon. Wed. & Fri.; May & June, daily; July, August & September, leave Scilly, Mon. Tues. Thur. & Fri.; returning from Penzance, Tues. Wed. Fri. & Sat.; October, November & December, from Scilly, Mon. & Thur.; returning; Wed. & Sat.

In July, August & September marine excursions from Penzance to places of interest on the north & south coast of Cornwall.

Little Western Steam Ship Co. George Bazelly & Sons, agents; steamers leave Penzance for Bristol every Wed. & for Plymouth, Torquay & London every Mon.