A CORNISH GHOST STORY.* SIR,—The following ghost story is takcn from Drew’s History of Cornwall, a standard work published in 1817, and still considered to be one of the most authentic and valuable histories of that county. The story itself being well authen ticated and there being many remarkable points in it, yor may perhaps consider it not unworthy of insertion in THE SPIRITUALIST. London, November 22nd, 1869. R. PEARCE. About 152 years since a ghost is said to have made its ap pearance in this parish, South Petherwin, near Launceston, in afield about half-a-mile from Botaden or Botathen. In the narrative which is given of this occurrence, it is said to have been seen by a son of Mr. Bligh, aged about sixteen, by his father and mother, and by the Rev. John Ruddle, master of the Grammai School of Launceston, and one of the prebend aries of Exeter, and vicar of Alternon. The relation given by Mr. Ruddle is in substance as follows: Young Mr. Bligh, a lad of bright parts and of no common attainments, became on a sudden pensive, dejected and melan choly. His friends, observing the change without being able to discover the cause, attributed his behaviour to laziness, an aversion to school, or to some other motive which they sus pected he was ashamed to avow. He was, however, induced after some time to inform his brother that in a field through which he passed to and from school, he was invariably met by the apparition of a woman, whom he personally knew while living, and who had been dead about eight years. Ridicule, threats and persuasions were alike used in vain by the family to induce him to dismiss these absurd ideas. Mr. Ruddle was however sent for, to whom the lad ingenously communicated the time, manner, and frequency of this appearance. It wa in a field called Higher Broomfield. The apparition, he said appeared dressed in female attire, met him two or three times while he passed through the field, glided hastily by him, but never spoke. He had thus bcen occasionally met about two months before he took any particular notice of it ; at length the appearance became more frequent, meeting him both morning and evening, but always in the same field, yet in variably moving out of the path when it came close by him. He often spoke, but could never get any reply. To avoid this unwelcome visitor he forsook the field, and went and returned from school through a lane, in which place between the quarry park and nursery it always met him. Unable to disbelieve the evidence of his senses, or to obtain credit with any of his family, he prevailed upon Mr. Ruddle to accompany him to the place. “I arose” says this clergyman, “ the next morn ing and went with him. The field to which he led me I guessed to be about twenty acres, in an open country, and about three furlongs from my house. We went into the field and had not gone a third-part before the spectrum in the shape of a woman, with all the circumstances he had described the day before, so far as the suddenness of its appearance and transition would permit me to discover, passed by, “I was a little surpriscd at it, and though I had taken up a firm resolution to speak to it, I had not the power, nor durst I look back, yet I took care not to show any fear to my pupil