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

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

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

LOUGH FOYLE, Aug. 12.—Arrived—Caledonia, steamer,
'rom New York.

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

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived.—.Petras, from Gefle—Seine, steamer, from St.
Thoma—Glubrenbrag, from Lagos—Ally and John Cie-
ments, from Sunderland.
Sailed.—Amalia, for Llanelly—Adelaide, for Sunderland,
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, August 11.—Sylph, from Barbadots.
Arrived, August 12.--Gustat Wasa, from Archangel ;
Napier, from Nelson—Teaser, 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 yeattrday the St. Hilda, I,OJO
tons, belonging to Mr John J. Lidgett, London, for the
conveyanco of emigrants to Sydney, New South Wales, at
£l2 125 per statute adult. The St. Hilda is appointed to
receive her passengers at Plymouth, and to sail about the
26th September next.

MI,TAKEN IDENTITY,—At the late meeeting 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 , egard
co official dignity and position. Two or three 0: 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
quarterde2it o f
not long ego been mistaken for no less a personage than
Jerry-bald-eye I—meaning thereby the illustrious Italian
patriot, General. Garibaldi.
vbezdaspen
a million of persons in England and Wales bearing
PEOPLE'S NAME S. —7llBe:thac7el9Bl°blol
the cosmopolitan surname of Smith, and above 45,000 per-
sons in Scotland. If you meet 73 persons in England, or
even 68 in Scotland, you may expect to find a Smith among
them. Next to Smith there comes in each country a purely
local name—Jones in England and Wales, Macdonald in
Scotland ; in every 78 persons in Scotland is a Macdonald!
The next most common names in England
Taylor, Davies,
andr Brown; in Scotland, Brown occupies
a very high numerical position, but several purely Scot-
tish names also stand high upon the list—Robertson,
Stewart, camp bell, 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 sirnamee, either in their pure un-
altered state, as Grant, Cameron, cke., or altered so as to
express the descent, as in Robertson and Morrison, or with
the Gaelic Mao. 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
similar
persons. In England,a examination by the Registrar-
General showed only 8 4 persona to a surname, 12
or sur-
names to 100 persons. The proportion of persons attachLd
to each surname would have been still larger in Scotland,
and more than double that of England, but for the immense
immigration from Ireland in the Nat quarter of a century.
In the Scottish register the 50 most common surnames
embrace nearly 30 per cent. of all the names on the
in EnglandlB
register; only about per cent. Of the 60
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 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 of each 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
but a lamb a year old.
be traced to a pig, 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 gir s Margaret is the favourite
name, but Mary is very close to it. In the Highland clans
Mary decidedly preponderates, 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,oB9—Beatrice, Clara, Emma,
Julia, Lucy; and among the 3,693 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 Eispeths as
Emilys, twice as many Marjorys as Louisas, fc ur times as
many Euphemise as Harriets, five times as many. Graces
as Carolines.
The benefit of Mr W. H. Sleigh, treasurer to
he Prince 3898 Theatre since MrVining's management, and
late acting manager for Mr Walter Montgomery, will take
place at the above theatre, on Monday next, the 15th inst.
SUDDEN. DEATLI IN A RAILWAY CAIIRIAGE.—At
the Todmorden station on Tuesday, on the arrival of the
train due at 6.30 p.m., it was ascertained that it contained a
gentleman who had suddenly expired on the journey. The
deceased is a German, named Nelson Ilartwr.g, and he was
on his way from Hamburgh to New York, 110 was accom-
s panied by a daughter, about 22 yeare old.