The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

By adyices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i per £1 stcrlin4.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills a
60 days' sight is about WO per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 62 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.17 i per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris that,: London.

THE MOST STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF THE SAT-
ING THAT THE PITH OF A LADY'S LETTER IS THE POST-
SCRIPT :—" P.S.—You will see by my signature that I ant

married."

The effective force of the Austrian troops
assembled on the frontier of Transylvania and the Buko-
wins amounts to 30,000 men. They occupy the whole .11;,e
of the Carpathians.
A STEEPLECHASE BY MOONLIGHT.--DuDALK„
May IG.--Last night, immediately after the clock
struck twelve, several officers of the gallant 4th Dragcon.
Guards, stationed here, started off for Dowdalhill race.
course to witness a moonlight steeplechase of three miles,
which Lieut, Farquhar undertook to perform with hist
favourite race mare Lady Annie. Lieut. Farquhar came in.
unscathed, and had 15 minutes to spare, neither he nor his
faithful nag being much the worse of their midnight
steeplechase. I understand that chances were considered
so much against the gallant rider that several bets were
offered, by which he netted £lOO. The race was an im-
promptu one, and arose at the mess table a few minute's
before it was undertaken,—Dublin Evening Mail.
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An inquestEAT was York
on the body of a boy about 14 years of age, named Robert
Corbett, who had died cn the previous night, His father
had gone to America two years ago from Clonmel, Ireland,
and a fortnight before last Christmas deceased was exhibited
at Reynold's waxwork exhibition at Liverpool
as a " Irving
skeleton." He had •
since been taken to the principal towns,
and was last week exhibited in Castlegate,York, after having
visited
was Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, and Wakefield. Ho
dressed in a fantastic style, and was so frightfully ema.
elated that there was no wonder one of the witnesses de-
scribed it as a disgusting exhibition. His mother took him
round the country for the sake of a livelihood, though it
was stated that the poor boy himself was desirous of being
shown to an admiring public as one of the greatest wonders
of the world. Mr North, surgeon, who was called in about
two hours before the deceased's death, which he attributed
to a scrofulous disease, thought the public exhibition of tha
child was highly objectionable as regarded his health, but
he was not prepared to say that death was accelerated
thereby. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had
died of scrofula, and at their request the coroner severely
reprimanded the mother for her conduct, stating, however,
that as it had not been made out that her conduct had acce-
lerated her son's death, she had escaped a criminal verdict.
Leeds Mercury.

The Echo de Vesone states that M. de Tonnens,
ex-King of .Araucania and Patagonia, who is now
staying at Perigueux, has recently received letters
from his old kingdom assuring him that his return
is impatiently expected by the population, and that
he may rely on an enthusiastic reception if be Will
return,