The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, May 13.—Wind this day at noon, North;
moderate breeze, and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH' May 12.—Wind E. to W.—Arrived—
May Russell, from Gibraltar, and sailed for London ;
H.M.Str. Janus, from Needles ; H.M.Str. Flying Fish,
ditto ' - H.M.S. Diadem, from Channel Islands. Sailed—
H.M.Str. Mersey, for North America.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 13.—Arrived—La Plata, from the
West Indies.

PLYMOUTH, May 12.—Wind N.—Arrived—H.M.Str.
Megaca, from Gibraltar. Sailed—Wellesley, for Sydney ;
Sea Star, for Adelaide ; Kezia, for Alexandria.
Orr QUEENSTOWN, May 12,—Arrived—St. Vincent,
from Trinidad.
DUNDEE, May 11.—Wind E.—Arrived—Amelia, from
St. John's, N.B. Sailed—Czar, for Quebec; Thos. Payne,
ditto.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived—Ann, from Cardiff; Argyll, steamer, from
Carentan , La Plata, steamer, from St. Thomas.
Sailed—Lucille, from Cazdiff.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, May 12—La Flor del Plata, from the Mauri-
tius ; Nina, from Minititlan.
DEAL, Monday Morning:-
Passed—Light and Sign (of Southampton), from north,
for west; Alphington, for Algoa Bay; Northumberland,
for Auckland; Lady Wharncliffe, for Mauritius; Black
Eagle, for Halifax; Sedgemoor, for Cape of Good Hope;
John Easthope, for Havre; Commodore, for Lagos; Speed-
well, Patricia, and Calypso, for Jamaica—all from Lon-
don ; H.M.S. Cressy, for Sheerness; and all the outward
bound west.

A small schooner on shore on Goodwin; several luggers
gone to her assistance.

Mr. Charlei L. Wilson, the newly•appointed
United States Secretary of Legation in London, arrived in
the steamer Fulton, at Southampton, on Thursday, and is
now staying at Morley's Hotel. Mr. Wilson has been for
some years the editor of a leading political journal in Illi-
nois, and is an intimate personal as well as a political friend
of President Lincoln.

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND. —The total
amount received in aid of the Indian Famine Fund up to
Saturday afternoon was £BB,OOO, of which £1,500 was re-
ceived during the day, including £l9l 18s. 40d. from New-
bury.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGTL—NEW SCHOLAR-
SHIP.—The committee of the Pitt Club have handed over
the sum of £1,480 to found a scholarship in the university
to be termed the Pitt Scholarship.
It is stated that in order to consider the propriety
of selling the Great Eastern, and the price at which she
may be sold, the directors of the Great Ship Company have
determined to call a special meeting of the shareholders for
the 31st of May. The articles of association require at
least 14 days' notice, but to avoid loss of time a preliminary
meeting will be held on Friday next, at the London
Tavern, when the wishes of the proprietors can be ex-
pressed, the more formal resolutions being deferred till the
31st instant.
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—Rough weather has
somewhat interrupted the operations of those engaged is
the herring fishery off the eastern coast during the last few
days, but the catches made have been pretty good. One
boat alone came into Lowestoft with 14,000 fish. Frice,
have ranged from 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. per 100. Some diffi-
culty
having arisen between several fish merchants at Yar-
mouth and the management of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way with respect to the rates charged for the carriage of
fish, the former threatened to engage two fast steamers to
convey their cargoes from the roadstead to London. It is
stated, however, that the difference has since been adjusted.
Preparations are being made for the commencement of the
mackerel fishery.
A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—The seamen visiting
the port of Blyth, in Northumberland, have sent an addi-
tional donation of £6, contributed in small sums varying
from threepence upwards, to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion. Who better than seamen can appreciate the comfort
of knowing where t,) run for a lifeboat when on a lee shore
and no port of refuge near. When vessels are overtaken
by an off-shore gale of wind on our north-east coast, no
shelter is often afforded them until they reach Yarmouth
Roads, where, alas I too frequently the bodies of their un-
happy crews are found floating on the outlying sand-banks ;
but where, let it be said to the horror of our lifeboat service,
the lifeboats of this important institution are often engaged
in performing the noblest deeds to sufferiug humanity.
The Registrar-General for Scotland, who hes
hitherto issued no detailed annual reports, has just
commenced the series beginning with his first year
of office, 1855. Taking first the births, the super-
intendent of statistics calls attention to the circum-
stance that the proportion of boys born to girls is
greater in the rural districts than in the towns, in
which, indeed, in that year the illegitimate boys
born were absolutely fewer in number than the
girls. This is attributed to a residence in towns
weakening the physical strength of parents,, and it
is considered a rule so established as to afford
male
progeny." valuable hint to those who desire male
_
progeny." With reference toincontinence,
the report states that it is found most preva-
lent in those districts in which farm work is done
by unmarried young then and women, who sleep in
the farmhouse, or sometimes in bothies set apart
for that purpose. It is contended that in many of
the irregular connexions which too often in Scot-
land are substituted for marriage, the parties are
true to each other, and that, indeed, the vice of un-
chastity seems greatly owing to the excess of a
Scottish virtue, for the proportion of illegitimate
births is highest where the test of signature of the
marriage register indicates the greatest prevalence
of education, and where, therefore, it may be sup-
posed that the prudential check operates most to
prevent improvident marriages. It would appear
from the year's returns, that though marriages are
much fewer in Scotland than in England, yet when
Scotchwomen do marry they are more prolific than
the English. Some rather curious matrimonial
statistics are supplied. It is remarked that widows
marrying bachelors, selected, as a general rule,
husbands younger than themselves ; "the status
which the widow had acquired by her former mar-
riage presented inducements to the unsettled
bachelor, which gave the widow a great advantage
over her unmarried sisters; and as power is dear to
every heart, a younger member of the opposite sex
was selected, as more likely to leave that power
in her hand than if the chosen second husband had
been her senior in years." The Scotch stand the
educational test well ; 88.6 per cent. of the men
who married, and 77.2 of the women, signed
their names. In . England, in the same year,
the proportions were 70.5 and 58.8. The deaths in
the year (a year of more than average mortality)
were only 206 in 10,000 persons, showing.
on
Scot-
laud to be one of the very healthiest countrieso
of
the face of the globe. The annual perm A
sneoatian-,
deaths to population is stated thus
women died
2.06; England, 2.21 ; France, 2
2.52 ; Holland, 2.76 ; Prussia, 2-83; P.
It'ianinr'el2aBto:nt:
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Sardinia, 2.91. Some points of
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to disease and mortality am
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conformations.fll ae Scotland
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spring. Of the in-
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acidhu la
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windswi prevail tf
of diarrhceal complaints, all the
R at in Scotland, with the single exception
ordinary epidemics of the country increase with the
increase of cold, and it is the cold that kills. The
diseases induced by heat seldom p
reanwhere
until the mean monthly temperaturevail rises above
laud,
60 deg., and that i 3 a rare occurrence„cot-