a parliamentary and municipal borough and market-town in the county of Cornwall, 235 miles from London. It is situated between two hills, and consists of one narrow and ill-paved street, nearly a mile in length. It is one of the county towns; the assizes and quarter-sessions being held here alternately with Launceston. It is also a stannary town. It has a spacious church, town-hall, lunatic asylum, county jail, and a grammar-school founded by Queen Elizabeth. The principal manufacture is shoes. Its municipal affairs are conducted by a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors, and it returns two members to parliament. Market-day, Saturday. Pop. (1851) of municipal borough, 4327; of parliamentary borough, 6337.