The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 31 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.35 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 10/(1. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
rather more than 3-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

By advim from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 staling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefc re, about
3-I.Als per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
0 days' sight is quoted 278 to 280 per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold 157 to isBi per cent. Go:d still continues to
be imported in very moderate quantities.

A general meeting of shareholders of the Bank
of British Columbia took place yesterday. The report
presented for adoption stated that the amount of
undiiided profit at the conclusion of the half year
ending 30th June last, was £11,105 16s 6d. Out
of this sum the directors propose to appropriate
£5,000 to paying a dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum, free of income tax; to add £4,000
to the Reserve Tend, which is thereby increased to
£6,000; and to carry forward £2,105 163 61 to the
current year.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WrsTEnzi RAILWAY.—Yesterday (Monday) much anxiety
was caused in Liverpool in consequence of a rumour that
an accident of a very alarming nature had occurred to the
London express, due in Liverpool at 12.30 p.m. On making
inquiries, however, we learned that the express train ran off
the line near Weedon, but, beyond a fright, none of the
passengers were injured. In consequence of this mishap
there was a delay of between two or three hours in the de-
livery of the mid-day mails.

COST OF THE AMERICAN WAR.—The New York
World reckons the coat of the present war thus :—Expen-
diture on army and navy, 3,000,000,600 dole , bcunties paid
by States and towns, 450,090,000 dole ; loss for life of the
labour of the killed and maimed, 2,000,000,000 dole ; loss
of three years' labour of other soldiers, 8,000,000,000 dole ;
property destroyed on the ocean, 300,000,000 dole; loss o
profits of commerce, 700,000,000 dole ; property destroyed on
land, 2,000,000,000 dole ; pensions to wounded and widows
for life, 400,000,000 dole—making a total of 15,050,C00,003.

DENMARK DESERTED BY ENGLAND—NOT BY
WALES I.—The Prince and Pt it:loess of Wales, says
the London Rev:cw, continue to be received with the greatest
warmth, and even enthusiasm, whenever they appear in
public in Denmark. Although their visit is a strictly pri-
vete one, and has no political signification, it is impossible
not to attach some meaning to the popular greeting by
which they have been welcomed, It indicates, no doubt,
principally, the personal
Popularity of the reigning family,
but it also shows that the Danes still cling to their indepen-
dent national existence, and are by no means inolined to
submit to absorption by the other Scandinavian kingdom.
Had any disposition of this kind existed, it must have made
inelf felt on an occasion of this kind, in coolaesa and indif- 1
ference to the joys and sorrows of the royal household.
That the people still sympathise heartily with their King
and his childeen, notwithstanding the misfortunes of the
country, is a sign:that there is no wavering in their ails-.
giance to Christian IX—no inclinaiion to cast on the mo-
narch the blame of reverses which he has been powerless to
avert. For Englishmen, the most interesting incident of
the visit is one which occurred on the arrival of the royal
party at Bernsdorff. In reply to the welcome which they
met, the King assured his subjects that his daughter's
heart was one with theirs,
and that it had felt and bled
for all their sorrows. This is, of conrse, nothing more
than might have been expected, and, had his Majesty
stopped there, his
speech would have excited little
attention. Ho went on, however, to say that the
Prince of Wales shared the feelings of his wife, and that
ho too sympathised with Denmark under the grievous
wrongs to which she has been subjected. We cannot avoid
m
accepting as perfectly authentic a statement so publicly
in the presence of the Prince of Wales. It amounts,
indeed, to no more than we believed before ; but at the same
time it is satisfactory to know, on unexceptionable autho-
rity, that the heir-apparent to the throne thinks and feels
like the great body of his countrymen, and that he at any
rate is not drawn by any German connections into predilec-
tions at variance with those of the English people. The
King's announcement, which was no doubt made with tie
consent of his Royal Highness, naturally excited an en-
thusiastic response ; and, whatever resentment may still be
entertained towards Great Britain for the part she has
played in recent events, no portion of it will henceforth be
visited upon the Prince of Wales.
ANTIQUARIAN DIGGINGS IN ABERD EENSIIIRE.
containing were
r—eCorrhdethile resultbe of twoieCnJournal
diggings which
olirnalsays:
have Wjust ohave to
been made
only
a quantity situated
in this county, The first was carried out on the 13th
nta he found,
second, a eist was
instant in several cairns on the estate of Rothie, belonging
to Colonel Forbes Leslie.
Two of thecairns
on a piece of rough whinny ground on the farm of Blind.
well. They were low circular structures of no great size.
In the firstf
calcined
found which contained an urn with portions of bones and
fragments of a curious jet necklace. A similar cairn on the
oa s mall c
biosnt
esw. as
I fo
same slope was recently opened and found to contain A
large urn in the centre. The urn contained a quantity of
bones. The third cairn now opened was in the middle
of a cultivated field, and it appeared to have been
surrounded by a row of large boulders, and to have
had a raised inner circular platform, Nothing
was
discovered beyond a deposit in the latter space, of which
fragments of bones and burned matter only remained. A.
cairn similar in its arrangement to the last was placed on
the adjoining farm of Burreldalee, and was recently removed.
It was examined by Mr Chalmers, who has described the
results in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in
Scotland. Some vestiges of Druidical circles occur in the
neighbourhood, as well as traces of the but circles of the
people, who had selected the dry slopes of those now fertile
braes as the site fur their abode, as well as of their final
resting places, It would appear that some of the bodies in
the cairns had been burned, and others not ; while some of
the bones appeared to be these of the lower animals. The
second dining took place on the 14th instant in a remark-
able cairn on the farm of Warrackstone, in the parish of
Tullynessle. It was a flit circular structure, surrounded
with big stones in the foundation, depressed towards the
centre, and having, raised all round, a ridge towards the
circumference. In this ridge, at different places, four
cists were discovered, formed of large slabs. In most of
them urns were found. At two spots on the south side large
runs, inverted, containing incinerated bones, were found,
without cists, in holes formed in the stones and subsoil; and
at two other spots higher up in the cairn, small cavities of
irregular form were noticed, is which were bones which
did not seem to have been burned. In the centre of the
cairn, deposits of burned matter, Containing bones, were
found. One of the large urns was decorated with a pro-
jecting zig-zag band, in great relief with other patterns
commonly found on cinerary urns,"