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 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.—Arrivod—Pan3ma,
from Bristol for Havannah.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived.—Petras, from Gale—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 Barbadms.
Arrived, August 12.—Gustaf \Vasa, from Archangel ;
Napier, from Nelson—Teaz,r, from Jamaica•—Southamp-
ton, from New York—Advance, from Havre—Lady Milne,
from New Yolk—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, 1,000
tone, 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. Hill 3 is appointed to
receive her passengers at Plymouth, and to sail about the
2Gth September next.

MISTAKEN 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, withiegard
to official dignity and position. Two or three 0f 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
toe 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 bug ago been mistaken for no less a personage than
patpriEotc,irGLeEne,sraNl Garibaldi.---rhSeoruethaa
Jerry-bald-eye I—meaning thereby the illustrious Italian
rlnel'atbno vheidaePend quarterelit. of
a million of persons in England and Wales bearing
the cosmopolitan surname of Smith, and above 45,000 per-
sons°c in each country a purely
localv
in Scotland. It you meet 73 persons in England, or
expect to find a Smith among
them. Ne atSmith:nto(es Yu
there ma
comes
in England and Wales, Macdonald in
teseeeot m
ian6eBaein Scotland,
;e—in every 78 persons in Scotland is a Macdonald.
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.•
upon the list—Robertson,
Stewart, Campbell, Anderson. There is a much greater
Je
clan predominance of surnames in Scotland than in Eng-
land. There are in both countries many surnames h fish names also stand high
de-
rived from occapation, 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, e,,
or altered so as to
express the descent, as in Robertson and Morrison, or with
the Gaelic /elec. A recent examination of the birth-register
' surname,
e
of Scotland for a year showed lin4a,molBalatiiortn by the R
hsandonelgyis6t,rBa2r:
separate surnames; so that there are more than 15 persons,
Or only 6.5 surnames to 100
persons.
neraanlh
showed
In
average,oEw t
legdl
a nt
onlyo a
da
S 4
similarpersons to a surname, or 12 sur-
names to 100 persons. The proportion of persons attached
cent. of all the names on the
to each surname would have been still larger in Scotland,
about 18 per cent. Of the 50
immigration from Ireland in the last quarter of a century.
In the Scottish register the 50 moat common surnames
and more than double that osfcEo
entirely or
in the form in which they occur ite Scotland may be
register;embrace inneaErinyg3lsOndpoenriy
reckoned as having originated in that country and as being
peculiar to it—a very large proportion, considering all
most common surnames in
circumstances. The remainder are common also to Eng-
land. The sobriquets perpetuated as surnames from a sup-
posed likeness to the animal crieation of course vary in
England and Scotland with the. language 6 of each country.
• h Fox is superseded in Scotland by Tod, a very
English
common name, having the same
meaning. Bullock be-
comes Stott, and Crow Craw. Hogg ;
-n. Scotland is not to
be traced to a pig, but a lamb a year old. er
e,er 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 differert 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
't. In the •
name, but Mary is very close to i Highland clans
nugania:32buetitfierrtheir.nenense
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 3,639—Beatrice, Clara, Emma,
e
Julia, Lucy ; and among the 3,690 boys there were not
three with either of several of our common English name,
Frederick, Phillip, Stephen.
find in England; there are twice as many Elspeths at,
Emilys, twice as many
Marjorys as Louisas, four times as
—Alfred,
he girls'
showsßenjamin, many ariations from what we should
e
many Euphemias as Harriets, five times as many Graces
as Carolines.
The benefit of Mr W. H. Sleigh, treasurer to
he Princess's Theatre since MrVining's management, and
late ac`ing manager for Mr Walter Montgomery, will take
place at the above theatre, on Monday next, the 15th inst.
SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—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 i.e a , -,-mar
namedGe Nelson Hartwig, and he was
on his way from Hamburgh to New York. He was accom-
panied by a daughter, about 22 years old.