The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-25 00:00:00

RAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od;
new do., £2s 10s to £4 Os ; old clove' do., £3 lOs to £6 Os ;
now do., £3 lOs to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 lOs to £2 Os per
load. A slow trade:

CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; new
do., £2 lOs to £1 Os : old clover, £3 lOs to £5 18s ; new do.,
£3 lOs to £5 Os; and straw, £1 lOs to £2 Os per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os Od;
new do., £2 lOs to £4 Os ; old clover, £3 lOs to £6 Os Od ;
new do., £3 lOs to £5 Os ; aid straw, £1 10s to £2 Os per
lead. Trade dull.

COAL M.

ET—JULY 24.
the close of the market
Walls End.

(ram of Coal per Ton al

s. d.
Holywell 15 6
Carway and Duffryn
Malting 24 0
. .

s. d.
Kelloe
Trimdon Hartlepool l9 6
Hetton 2O 0
Haswell 2O 0
Braddyll's Hetton 19 0
Trimdon Thornley 17 0
South Hetton 20 0
Harton 17 6
Keiper Grange.... lB 9
Acorn Close ...18 3
Russel's Hetton 19 0
Whitworth ....15 3
Framwellgate ....18 3
Hartlepool...... ..... .19 9
Thorpe ....18 0
,t, 49 sold, 48.

Do. -Anthracite— 21 6
Wylam l5 6
Lambert's West Hart-

ley 16 3
Eden Main 18 3
Howard's West Hart-

ley 16 6
Hastings Hartley l6 6

Walls End.

Tees l9 9
South Hartlepool 18 61
Heugh Hall 18 3
Ships at marke

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUE.
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
. .. Ally 19.
ampton)D.o.. •
. .. Aug. 4.
Brazil and Cape Verds ..
_0• •
Buenos Ayres,. Monte Video, & .• : :
July
0.
• • • (via Marseilles) Aug. 12.
Cuba and Mexico .. .. • • • •
Canada, &o. (via L'derry) .. .
Cape of Good Hope &c... . • • • .. Aug. 1..... July —.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 19.
Do (via Marseilles) July 27.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) . • .. .. July 19.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 19.
Do. (via Marseilles) July 27.
India (Bombay), (via:Southampton) . • • • July 26.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. •. July 20.
Lisbon • • ~. . • • • • • • • July 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. July 19.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. July 20.
Vigo, and Oporto ..
California,'. • . .. July 21.
United States, &o. .. . • .. July 24.
Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Aug. 10.
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &e. July 29.

A, HEN IN A CHINA Silo
hen, in the course of a leisurely peregrination, strutted into
a shop in Wick, and after a brief survey of the premises,
mounted the counter, jumping thence into a corner where.
a large quantity of brittle ware was deposited. Bore c.hucluef
contrived to upset and destroy various valuable
crockery, and having thus far succeeded she flew in the
direction of the window, upsetting and smashing b°ttlellow:
and threatening to commit greater destruction.
ll'elders
ever, she was secured, and, as a warning to ari 17 ,
sum:
she was then and there, without the benefit of
ta Mai
articles o
manly decapitated and thrown_ into
Ensign.
opane, there-
difficult ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS
. g
and
settling in a place rendered very
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is the nuraber of illegitima. te children so large as in
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there.
1828-37''n Piedmont, in 100 births twol.ll '• i egiti.
mate ones ; in Sweden, 1831-35, A
-*- ; in England, 1842,
6.7; in Belgium, 1842, 61; in France, 1842, 7; ' P
the years
Ede, 1841, 7-1 : in Denmark, 1835-39, 7.3 .-- um ma
...movers
1842, 7.8 ;in Austria, 1842, 11.3 -in W ' inberg, 1842,
111 ;in Saxony, 1841, 14'9 ; Baid'inß um'
1828 29 20-6.
M. Scraemli has lately furnished the following numbers'
—Amongst.. 1,000 newly-born infants there are 209
illegitimate in Bavaria, 150 in Saxony, 149 in Bohemia,
76 in Bel • glum, 73 in Prussia 71 in France, 69 in Switzer-
land,. 51 in Holland, and 36,in LombardY• The numbers
given by these foreign writers for Bavaria are by no
means too high, as is shown by a table taken
from Hermann's contributions to the statistics of
la
Bavaria, Nvb .ich refer to the years 1835-44, and 1851.
vhESeurrlbteuenrday,
during
57. Durinr; the former nine years 1,094,795 legiti-
mate and 21 i 8 441 illegitimate children were born, that is,
209 illegitit note in every thousand ; in the seven years
from 1851-57, 210 illegitimate births took place in a thou-
sand—the =timber of them thus showing an extraordi-
nary penman •
enee. It is often said that the increase of
1 the indtu3te lel classes of the population is the cause
i of the incro ased number of illegitimate births ; but the
numbers just ; given evidently refute this view. England,
with its fret none industrial population, shows only one-
fourth of the amount of immorality observed in Bevan!.
The same is. the case in ißelgium, France, and Prussia,
where industry is much more developed than in BaVallt.
The canton o f Zurich has a male population of 48 per _e'en
of farmers, Si I per cent. of industrial. classes, and. 16____It-
cent. of artisa me ; one illegitimate birtbt. takes. placecinhri
758 inhabitan ts ; and there are only 44 illegitalnat4
in 1,000, whq e there are 210 o;eh is R'rlarial