The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Aug. 12._ Hind this day at noon—South-
Weet ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little

cloudy,
HULL, Aug. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Christine,
from Quebec.
LOUGH FOYLE, Aug. 12.—Arrived—Caledonia, steamer,
from New York.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Queen
of the Clippers, from London to Bermuda.
NEWPORT, Aug. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Panama,
from Bristol for Havannah.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived.—Petras, from Getie—Seine, steamer, from St.
Thoma—Glubrenbrag, from Lagos—Ally and John Cle-
ments, from Sunderland.
Sailed.—Amalia, for Daneßy—Adelaide:for Sunderland.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
_ _ _ GRAVESEND. Friday Morning.

Arrived, August 11.—Sylph, from Barbadots,
Arrived, August 12.—Gustat 'Vasa, from Archangel ;
Napier, from Nelson—Teazer, from Jamaica--Southamp-
ton, from New York—Advance, from Havre—Lady Milne,
from New York—Thrifty, from Jersey.
Sailed, Aug. 11—Era, screw steamer, for St Petersburg
—. Schwan, screw steamer, for Bremen—Emma, screw
steamer, for Christiania—Lord John Russell, steamer, for
Dunkirk.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Mary, of Yarmouth, from the west, for the
north.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Emigration
Commissioners chartered yesterday the St. Hilda, 1,030
tons, belonging to Mr John J. Lidgett, London, for the
conveyance of emigrants to Sydney, New South Wales, at
£l2 12s per statute adult. The St. Hilda is appointed to
receive her passengers at Plymouth, and to sail about the
26th September next.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY,—At the late meeetiag at
Bishop's Waltham, on the occasion of Prince
Leopold laying the foundation stone of the new infirmary,
there was a laughable case of mistaken identity, with regard
to official dignity and position. Two or three at the mayors
who were present without being in official costume were not
known to the general company and the attendants, and
when the guests were assembling, one of the worthy and
good-looking town sergeants of Southampton, wearing all
the insignia of his civic dignity, was taken to be no less a
personage than a mayor, and was invited with the most
respectful courtesy to take a seat at the principal table.
Being somewhat astonished at the mark of distinction which
was about to be conferred on him thus suddenly, an ex-
planation ensued, but without being at all abashed, and
preserving the most commendable sense of his high position,
he said he was not at all surprised at the mistake, as he had
not loag ago been mistaken for no less a personage than
Jerry-bald-eye I—meaning thereby the illustrious Italian
patriot, General Garibaldi.—Southampton Independent.
PEOPLE'S NAMES.—There are above a quarter of
a million of persons ia :England and Wales bearing
the cosmopolitan surname of Cpaith, and above 45,000 per-
sons in Scotland. If you meet 7, persons in England, or
even 68 in Scotland, you may ex
to
.find a Smith among
pea.
them. Next to Smith there comes in each thuntrY a purely
local name—Jones in England and Wales,
Ne,:donald in
Scotland ; in every 78 persons in Scotland is a meetioald.
The next most common names in England;—Williams,
Taylor, Davies, and Brown ; in Scotland, Brown occupies
a very high numerical position, but several purely Scot-
tish names also stand high upon the list—Robertson,
Stewart, Campbell, Anderson. There is a much greater
clan predominance of surnames in Scotland than in Eng-
land. There are in both countries many surnames de-
rived from occupation, locality, or personal qualities;
while in England in the thirty most common surnames
only 27, in Scotland 37—the great majority—are real
patronymics and truly eirnames, either in their pure un-
altered state, as Grant, Cameron, &c., or altered so as to
express the descent, as in Robertson and Morrison, or with
the Gaelic Idac. A recent examination of the birth-register
of Scotland for a year showed 104,018 births and only 6,823
separate surnames; so that there are more than 15 persons,
upon an average, to a surname, or only 6'5 surnames to 100
persons. In England,a similar examination by the Registrar-
General showed only 8 4 persons to a surname, or 12 sur-
names to 100 persons. The proportion of persons attacht d 1
to each surname would have been stia larger in Scotland,
and more than double that of England, bin; for the immense
immigration from Ireland in the last quarter of a century.
In the Scottish register the 50 most common t:urnames
embrace nearly 30 per cent. of all the names ol.*. the
register; in England only about 18 per cent. Of the 0
most common surnames in Scotland, 32 either entirely or
in the form in which they occur in Scotland may be
reckoned as having originated in that country and as being
peculiar to it---a very largo proportion, considering all
circumstances. The remainder are common also to Eng-
land. The sobriquets perpetuated as surnames from a sup-
posed likeness to the animal creation of o,:urse vary in
England and Scotland with the language
of sari, country.
English Fox is superseded in Scotland by Tod, a very
common name, having the same meaning. Bullock be-
comes Stott, and Crow Craw. Hogg in
Scotland is not to
be traced to a pig, but a lamb a year old. Mr Stork, of the
Scottish register office, from whose
sixth,
annual report
(just issued) these statements are taken, has also had the
curiosity to note the Christian names occurring upon the
registers. In 3,690 entries of births of boys there were only
67 different Christian names, but among a like number of
girls' there were 86. John and James greatly preponderate
among the boys. among the girls Margaret is the favourite
name, but Mary is very close to it. In the Highland clans
Mary decidedly prepouderates, but Margaret in all other
parts of Scotland. Several names not uncommon among
girls in England did not occur so many as three times in
the entire Scotch list of 3,6B9—Beatrice, Clara, Emma,
Julia, Lucy; and among the 3,690 boys there were not
three with either of several of our common English names
—Alfred, Arthur Benjamin, Frederick, Phillip, Stephen.
the girls' list shows many variations from what we should
find in England; there are twice as many Elspoths as
Emilys, twice as many Marjorys as Louisas, fc ur times as
many Euphemias as Harriets, five times as many Graces
as Carolinas.
By advises from Sam the price of gold is per mark
and the short exchanir on London is 13.51 per £1 stcrlin .
standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London and the
premium on gold are quoted with such large differences that
no ca cu,ations can be based on them ; but gold continues to
be shipped to England.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per bailie pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of t:,
17s. lcid, per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-1(4110 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.