The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tats DAY.

amsterdam •• .• •... II 1 Gibraltar...... •••• • • •
Ditto, three months .. 11 17%6 Leghorn .. •• • • .... •• .• 29 75
Rotterdam • • •• 11 1734 GOllOll • • • 25 50

Antwerp •• •• •• •• •• •.35 35 Milan ••.••• • • •• •.• • •
3rUSIOIX .• .• •.•••• •• .4. 25 35 i Vertica • • •• .•
anmburgh ............ 13 7 Napleo -• •........... 41
Altona •• ••.••••••• •• •• • • Palermo •• •• •• •• ••••
raris.• •• 25 10 ,Messina ....... •• .. 125.34
Do. three months .. .• 25 32% Lisbon 52
P4ar5e11155 ............ 25 35 Oporto
floe rdeatix •• • • Rio Janeiro ..... .••
Franktort-on-Nlaine 118% Buenos
Berlin .. •• •• •••••• • • •• • • ;New York,s3 darV3ight
1027 ,Philndelphia •• ......
.• •... 10 28 PRICE 4 OF anti-um Fr% oz:
l'etersburg 35% ilrofeign Golcl in Bars .V 3 17 9
••• .• .• 4914 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 n 0
Cadiz• .• .• •• .• 0," 49% igezieati Dollars 00 0
riArtelonit .......... New Dolinra •• 0 o
Seville..

NEWMA.RKZT E,ACES.—(This Day.)

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SON'S.

Lady Well
La Doane filly
Sister to Amsterdam
JULY STAKES

Cynricu9
Stockbam .
Black Bess colt
Nine ran. Won by a length
501. HANDICAP PLATE

Lifeboat
Whitewall

Seven rao.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOVS.
Theodora
Noieetto

Five rae.

MATCHES.
Qteen Lily beat Flimsy.
Killigrew beat Humming Bird.
Dead heat between Gin and Pandora.

SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.

The following yearlings, &c., were sold by auction,
by Messrs. Tattersall, yesterday :
a.

YEARLINGS.
Sir Hugh, brown colt by Brocket, dam Cinaminta,
by Bay Middleton
D'Orray, by colt by Confessor, dam Mr. S34eis's
dam b)
Plaything, bay filly by Brocket, dam by Touch-
stone
Tumbler, bay colt by Acrobat, dam Nugget, sister
to Bracket
Moustache, chestnut colt by Acrobat, dam Conyng-
ham's dam, by Whisker
Sweet William, brown colt by Acrobat, dam Black-
eyed Susan, by Bay Middieton
Agenoria, bay filly by Bracket, dam Monttress, by
Cotherstone
The following by order of the High Court of Chan-
cery :
Dinah (dam of Little Tom, Sirocco, Commotion,
Yaller Gal, &c.) 3lO
Emotion, 2 yrs, bay filly by Alarm, out of Dinah
61
(with her engagements)

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ILLEGITIMACY IN SCOTLAND.—The returns of the
Registrar-General of Scotland show that the counties
in his list in which the proportion of illegitimate births
is greatest are act those which are rapidly advancing in
population, or which contain our largest cities, with
their overcrowded inhabitants, but are rather those
which are more purely agricultural. nine. in Scotland
the counties of Renfrew and Lanark, with their teem-
ing population, show only 6.1 and 6 7 per cent. respec-
tively of illegitimate births ; Linlithgow 61 per cent.,
and Edinburgh 8 7 per cent. ; while the proportion of
illegitimate births rises to 11.1 per cent. in Peebles, to
11.6 per cent. in Roxburgh, to 12'5 per cent, in Selkirk,
to 131 per cent. in Kincardine, to 14 per cent,
in Kirk-
cudbright, w 15.7 per cent. in Dumfries, to 16-2 per
cent. in Aberdeen, to 17'1 per cent. in Banff, and to the
enormous proportion of 17'5 per cent. of the births in
Nairn. The general comparison of the social condition
of Scotland in this respect with other nations around us
does not aff.rd as favourable a result to the land of John
Knox as might have been expected, especially when the
facilities afforded by Gretna-green are remembered. It
appears that in Sweden only about 6'5 per cent. of the
births are illegitimate ; in Norway, 6.6 per cent. ; in
England, 6-7 per cent. ; in Belgium, 61 per cont. ; in
France, 7.1 per cent. ; in Prussia, 7.1 per cent. ; in Den-
mark, 9.3 per cent. ; in Hanover, 9.8 per cent. ; while
in Austria 11.3 per cent. of the birth! are illegitimate.
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