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

LOCAL SHARE MARKBTB.

LIVERPOOL—JULY 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE—The market improved soon after
the opening, and closes at an advance of about 1 per cent.,
and with a much better feeling than has been shown for
some time past. The news to-day respecting the Atlantic
has so far produced no great effect upon the value of the
shares ; they are nominally quoted 500 to 550, but, as may
be expected, are not very marketable just at present.
Subjoined are the closing prices :—Dovers, 198 2)--Leeds
Northern, 223 8 Caledonians, 36i 7—York and North
Midland, 35 4 R—Berwicks, 22 11-16—East Lancashire,
—London and North-Western, 89i Sheffield, 36 i
Chesterand Holyhead, 161 174—Eastern Counties, 12 1.16
—Great Western, 501 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 90i
—Great Western of Canada, 16a _ Elackburns, 11
Midland, 91 4—North British, 114 —Birkenheads 68
Grand Trunk of Canada, 10 4 j
Dutch Rhenish, 5i dis.

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 6.
STOCK EXCEIANOE.—Thera was a dull market here to-
day again, but prices aro rather higher. The business
done was chiefly in local stocks.

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 aro Let 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. Thus, in Scotland
the countb-s of Renfrew and Lanark, with their teeml
ing population, show only 6'l and 6.7 per cent, teepee•
tively of illegitimate births ; Linlithgow 6'7 per cent.
and Edinburgh B'7 per cent. ; while the proportion of
illegitimate births rises to 111 per cent, in Peebles, to
11'6 per cent. in llf,xburgh, to 12.5 per cent, in Selkirk,
to 13.1 per cent, in Kincardine, to 14 per cent. in Kirk-
cudbright, to 151 per cent. in Dumfries, to 161 per
cent, in Aberdeen, to 171 per cent. iu 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 io this respect with other nations around us,
does not afford as favourable a result to the land of John
Knox as might have been expected, especially when the
facilities afforded by Gretna-'teen 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, 61 per cent. ; in Belgium, 6.7 per cent. ; 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 births are illegitimate.
—Lanett.

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