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

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Aug. 12.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West ; moderate breeze and fiae weather, but a little
cloudy.
'HULL, Aug. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Christine,
from Quebec.

,roLmoNuc:FyooyrkL.E, Aug. 12.—Arrived—Caledonia, steamer,

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 Gefie—Seine, steamer, from St.
Thoma—Glubrenbrag, from Lagos—Ally and John Cle-
ments, from Sunderland.
Sailed.—Amalia, for Llanelly—Adelaide, for Sunderland.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning,
Arrived, August 11.—Sylph, from BarbadoEs.
Arrived, August 12.—G-.e.; at Warm, from Archangel;
Napier, from Nelson—r— _zer, from Jamaica—Southamp-
ton, from New Yor.:—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—Erdma, 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
412 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 tweeting at
Anderson,
high
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 throat the mayors
who were present without being in official costume were not
known to the general company and the attendants, and
very
e Taylor,
r next
ne xim l
Davies,
e
position, but several purely Scote
fish name
numerical
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 loeg ago been mistaken for no less a personage than
Jerry-bald-eye I---meaning thereby the illustrious Italian
patriot, General Garibaldi.—,vouthampton independent.
PEOPLE'S NAMES. —There are above a quarter of
a million of persons in England and Wales bearing
the cosmopolitan surname of Smith, and above 45,000 per-
sons in Scotland. If you meet 73 persons' in England, or
ones in England and wales, Macdonald in
Scotland
even 68 in Scotland, you may expect to find a Smith among
Traj
The every 78 persons in Scotland is a Macdonald.
them. Next to Smith there comes in each country a purely
most common names in England :—Williams,
and Brown;
a localy high
upon the list—Robertson,
Stewart,
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;
Campbell,
also
stand
while in England in the thirty most common surnames
only 27, in Scotland 37—the great majority—are real
patronymics
and truly sirnarnee,
either in their pure un-
altered state, as Grant, Cameron, &e,, or altered so as to
express the descent, as in Robertson and Morrison, or with
tb.e Gaelic Mac. 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
person?. 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 attached
to each surname would have been. still barker in Scotland,
and more than double that of England, but for !.'eta immense
immigration from Ireland in the last quarter of a ceetury.
In the Scottish register the 50 most
common.
sunatiales
embrace nearly 30 per cent, of all the names on fee
register; in England only about 18 per cent, Of the 50
most common surnamos in Scotland, 32 either entirely or
hey occur .ite
in the form in. which t Scotland may be
reckoned as having originated in that cowry and as being
peculiar to it--a very large 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 course vary in
England and Scotland with the language K )f each country.
English Fox is superseded in Scotland ey Tod, a very
common name,
having the same raeaninc. Bullock be-
comes Stott, and Crow Craw. Hogg in
Scotland is not to
be traced to a pig, but a lamb a year old. 3lr Stork, of the
Scottish register office, from whose six ;
ta annual report
(just issued) these statements are taken, aas also had the
curiosity to note the Christian names oeturring upon the
registers. In 3,690 entries of births of boy; there were only
67 different Christian names' but among a like numbar of
girls there were 86. John and James 2,Tertly preponderate
among the boys. Among the girls Margartt is tho favourite
name, but Mary is very close to it. In the Highland clans
Mary decidedly preponderate,s, but Margiret in all other
parts of Scotland. Several names not necommon among
girls in England did not occur so many is three times in
the entire Scotch list of 3,6S9—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, Paillip, Stephen.
The girls' list shows many variations from what we shcule
find in England; there are twice as maly Elspeths at.
Emilys, twice as many Marjorys as Louis,s, fur times ac
hernias as Ilarriets, five thnea es many Grace:.
many Eup
as Carolinas.
By advices from Hamburg the price ?t bolt is 425 per mark
and the short exchany on London is 13.51 per £1 stcrlin ,
tandard bold at the English Mint price is, lierefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in liamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London and th*
premium on gold are quoted with such large differences than
no ca Cu aliens can be based on them ; but told continues to
be shipped to England.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mile pm., au c
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per.£l sterling. 01
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of :-*
17s. lOad. per min., ^trfor standard gold, it appears that gold ii
nearly 2-10 the per cent. dearer in Paris that in London.