West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser. Friday 7th November, 1851. MEVAGISSEY - A House and Shop to Let, now in the occupation of Mrs. E. SCANTLEBURY. The Premises are in a good situation, and well adapted for the Drapery and Grocery trades, for which purpose they have for many years been occupied. For particulars apply to JOSIAH KITTO, Mevagissey. Dated Nov 5, 1851. TEETOTALISM - A public meeting was held on Monday last at Bodmin, which was attended by Mr. ADDLESHAW, the county agent. The attendance was respectable, and the attention and applause marked. Some signatures were taken, and a considerable quantity of Livesey's cheap tracts were sold at the close. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS - From the Registrar General's returns from the various districts of England, it appears that the marriages still exceed the average, but are less numerous than the marriages in the corresponding quarter of last year. The births continue to increase rapidly, and the mortality is below the average; the returns therefore present a favourable view of the state of the country. Amongst those counties in which the marriages have increased, Cornwall is included. The Registrar General remarks that the observation has been made that the marriages increase after a fatal epidemic; and in the present returns the marriages are seen to have been in excess generally where cholera was most fatal in 1849. There have been 150,584 births registered in the past quarter ending September 30th, which is the greatest number ever registered in the same season of the year. During the same quarter 91,600 persons died, leaving an excess of 58,984 in the population. There is a great deal of emigration, but the Registrar General remarks that up to a late period there has been a constant immigration of the Irish and Scotch into England, which appears to have been fully equivalent to the emigration of the English into the colonies and to foreign parts; but no exact statistical information on this subject exists. The Registrar General remarks that "the South Western Division, with the exception of Cornwall, was healthier than is usual. Scarlatina and diarrhoea prevailed in Plymouth and Stoke Damarel. Scarlatina was the chief cause of the high mortality in Cornwall. Smallpox has also been there. Dysentery is now prevailing at St. Ives. In the Penzance sub-district the deaths exceeded the births registered; and sanatory measures are so grossly neglected by the inhabitants, that fifty-seven of their children have died of small-pox, which is still prevailing." The returns from Cornwall show that the deaths registered in the past quarter ending September 30th, were 1,814; in the same quarter of 1850, the number was 1,376. EMIGRATION - From the Registrar General's report it appears that 85,603 emigrants left the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are government emigration officers in the quarter ending September 30th, 1851. This is at the rate of 930 a day; 6,510 a week. 13,963 sailed from Irish ports, 4,378 from Glasgow and Greenock, and 67,262 from three English ports; namely, 10,062 from London, 2,799 from Plymouth, and 54,401 from Liverpool. Many of the Irish emigrants are returned at Liverpool. Of the total number 68,960 emigrants sailed to the United States, 9,268 to British North America, 6,097 to the Australian Colonies, and 1,278 to other places. The emigration has hitherto been greater in 1851 than it was in the corresponding quarters of 1850. The Registrar General observes that the present movement of the population is in many respects remarkable. The free admission of grain, fruit, and meat, since the scarcity is equivalent to an addition to the country of a vast tract of fertile soil, which calls for cultivators, and, as the land is abroad, for agricultural emigrants who prefer the cheap though distant lands of America to the high-rented farms of Ireland, no longer possessing a monopoly for its produce in the English market. The fact deserves attention, that while the United kingdom has been importing food in unprecedented quantities, it has been sending out swarms of emigrants from the population, of which the marriages and births promise to keep up a perpetual and increasing supply. Mr. CROWDER - The Bristol papers announce that Mr. Crowder, Q.C., the member for Liskeard, will be appointed to the puisne judgeship in the Court of Queen's Bench, to be rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Justice PATTESON. GRAYS INN - At a pension of the honourable society of Grays Inn, holden on Wednesday last, Mr. WILLIAM VOSPER, of Stoke Cottage, Devonport, and Mr. JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Overton House, near Wakefield, in the county of York, were called to the degree of barrister at law. At the same pension Mr. WALTER COULSON, one of the recently appointed Queen's Counsel, took his seat as a Bencher of the society. PENZANCE - The silver medal of the Royal National Institution for the preservation of lives from shipwreck, was unanimously voted on Thursday last, to Mr. RICHARD PEARCE, of Penzance, "In appreciation of his humanity and intrepidity in having gone off, and always taking the lead, to upwards of forty wrecked vessels, and thereby being instrumental, under Divine Providence, in having assisted to save a large number of lives; with the fervent wish of the committee that he may long live to wear the medal, to stimulate others to emulate his laudable example." PENDENNIS CASTLE - On Wednesday last, the detachment of the 77th Regiment doing Garrison duty at Pendennis, was replaced by a detachment of the 79th, from Plymouth, the former being about to proceed to Cork. MR. KEY'S HOUNDS - On Monday week, Mr. HART KEY's hounds proceeded to Vyell's Park, where they soon unkennelled Mr. Reynard, very much to the delight of a large field, and after a splendid day's sport they succeeded in killing a brace of foxes. After the sports of the field, about thirty gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner provided by Mr. THOMAS, at the Commercial Hotel, Wadebridge, at which Mr. SAMUEL POLLARD presided, and Mr. JAMES ARNEY HICK acted as vice-chairman. After the usual loyal and other toasts, the chairman, in an appropriate speech, proposed the health of their guest, Mr. Key, and further stated that it occurred to him and a few of his friends a short time since that Mr. Key was entitled to some mark of esteem for his kindness on all occasions in affording them such excellent sport; he had therefore much pleasure in presenting him with a silver hunting horn, on which was engraved; "A small token of esteem presented to Hart Key, by a few of his sporting companions, 1851." Mr. Key's health was then drunk with the best feeling, to which he replied in his usual happy style. The evening was spent in the greatest harmony, and the songs and glees greatly contributed to the enjoyment of the party which broke up about twelve o'clock. SALVAGE - We understand that Messrs. FRANCIS BANFIELD and SONS, the agents to the underwriters of Hamburg at Scilly, have offered on behalf of their principals, the salvors of the hull and cargo of the Neapolitan brig "San Giorgio," towed into that port on the 25th of September last, the sum of GBP2,000 for salvage of the 219 casks towed in with the hull; GBP15 per ton for about thirty tons picked up at sea, and GBP110 for the hull, altogether about GBP2,500, which offer the salvors have accepted. Messrs. Francis Banfield and Sons have been recently appointed agents to the French Lloyds, and also to the underwriters of Paris at Scilly. ST. AUSTELL PETTY SESSIONS - These sessions were held in the town-hall, on Tuesday last, before a full bench of magistrates when WILLIAM SNELL of St. Stephens, was fined GBP1 and costs, for riding on his waggon and driving without any reins. Mr. THOMAS GROSE, draper, of St. Austell, was fined 5s. and costs for leaving his goods on the causeway. WALTER GUMMOE was convicted of being drunk and breaking the peace, and bound over in GBP10 with two sureties to keep the peace for the next six months. JAMES RICKARD was committed for one month, for refusing to pay towards the maintenance of an illegitimate child. ROBBERY - On Friday evening last as a person named WILLIAM RICHARDS was returning home from St. Austell, he was met by several persons one of whom (a woman) asked him to treat her with some drink and in the mean time robbed him of GBP1. 7s. Information was given to the police who succeeded in taking ELIZABETH BAMFIELD, HENRY ARTHUR, THOMAS WATSON, BARTLETT PASCOE, and MARTHA ABBOT. On the following morning, they were brought before Messrs. SAWLE and E. COODE, jun., when the three former were set at liberty and the two latter committed to take their trial at the next sessions. CORONER'S INQUEST - On Friday last, an inquest was held before Mr. ROUS PENDER, coroner for Falmouth, on the body of THOMAS HICKS, mate of the schooner "Argyle," then lying in the harbour. From the evidence of the master, JOHN LEWIS, it appeared that the vessel arrived from Hamburg the day before, and in the evening he left the ship in charge of the mate who said he was not coming on shore. He was seen however on the market strand about half-past seven, and was going towards the Duke of Kent Inn, at the back of which the boat must have been lying. In the morning of Friday, the boat was picked up on the rocks near Fish Strand, and the deceased's hat and one oar near Mulberry square steps, and about one o'clock of the same day the body of deceased was found at the back of the quay near Britton's yard. It was supposed deceased who was a little tipsy when last seen must have been skulling off to his ship and fell overboard. Verdict "found drowned." Deceased was a Welchman aged 64 years.