The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-11 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Sept. 11.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 10.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Pioneer, from Sydney. Sailed—Maria
Johanna, for Buenos Ayres.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 10.—Arrived—Bertha, from Rio
Janeiro.

WEYMOUTH, Sept. 10.—Wind N. W..—Arrived—Granite
City, from London for Sydney.
SUNDERLAND, Sept. 10.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nep-
tune, from Quebec.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GiuyEsENp, Friday Morning.
Arrived Sept. 10—Diana, from Amsterdam; Radiant,
from Cronstadt.
Arrived, Sept. 11—Swainson, from Cronstadt; Hnfforng,
from Archangel; Brothers, from Dantsic ; Alexander, from
Surinam ; Cleaina, from Groningen; John and Alice
Brown
from Cronstadt; Mary E. Ray, from futicorin ;
,
Arica, from Hudickswall; Florence Nightingale, from Got
tenburg.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed in tow.—Constance, from Callao, tor London,
Passed.—Kingston, from Cape of Good Hope, for Lon-
-1;71 ; her Majesty's yacht Osborne, from the River, for the
est ; Regina, set ew steamer, from offLondn, for Genoa ;
Croydon, from London, for the Cape of ood Hope ;
Coralie, from London, for Brest; Amphitrite, from London,
for Cardiff.
Anchored.—Luzon, from Sunderland, for Shanghae.

JULES JANIN'S ETERNAL YOUTII.—Some men
never grow old, exclaims a genial critic of this
veteran jeuilletoniste's last new work. Whatever the re-
gistrar's book or Vapereau's 46 Dictionnaire des Contern•
porains" may say to the contrary, they remain settled on
the bright side of thirty. Take Jules Janin as an example
We could easily fix the date of his first feuiaelon in the
Journal des Debats—but look at the preface of the' Contes
du Chalet," and say whether it is not the production of a
very young man, full of enthusiasm for everything that is
noble and beautiful, brimming over with imagination and
fancy. The cheilet which M. Jules Janin celebrates in this
preface is the new residence erected for him at Pasty--a
chalet in the strictest sense of the word, small, neat, pie•
turesque, full of treasures of every kind, having a minia-
ture park and water works. The walls are ornamented
with appropriate inscriptions, and within is a round table,
presented to the feuilletoniste by M. Lacheze, whom his
friend has in return honoured with the dedication of the
Contes du Chalet."
INCREASE OF
GOLD AND DIMINUTION OF ITS
VALUE.—When the American mines were dis-
covered they added so largely to the then scanty stock of
gold hell by European nations as to increase prices on an
average by about 400 per cent. ; but the change, large as
it was, was scarcely perceptible at the time, not less than a
century having elapsed before prices settled down on their
new basis. It may be assumed that the consequences of
the new discoveries will repeat, in this respect, the expe-
rience of the 16th century ;
belief that the impending but it would be idle to hug the
revolution is at all less certain,
because it promises to be gradual and slow. It will come,
if not in our time, in the time of our sons ; and prudent
men, in making their provision for the future, will take into
account the fact that £l,OOO in the next generation will
probably be very much less 'valuable than £l, teo now.
The Court of Assize of Indre-et-Loire last week
tried a returned convict named Maurice, aged 59,
charged with having murdered at Cerizay an infirm old
man, named B...rrilaut, nearly go years of age. It appeared,
from the evidence, that the prisoner returned to France on
the 28th April last from Cayenne, where he had undergone
a sentence of ten years' hard labour. As soon as he landed
no commenced his cld practices, and on the 30th May he
murdered Barrilaut, and plundered the house, which he
had entered under pretext of begging a glass of wine. He
was arrested immediately after the crime. The evidence
against him being most conclusive, he was found guilty
and condemned to death.

The Pays gives some explanation of the prove.
sional seizure of the Confederate man-of-war Florida, now
uuder repairs at Brest. It seems that M. Menier, the ship-
owner, at whose instance the measure has been taken)
claims 100,000 f. damages from the Florida, in consequence
of her having put some prisoners on board one of his ves-
sels, and compelled her to alter her course and convey them
to Acapulco. The information of the Pays may be correct,
but its geography is clearly wrong, Acapulco is on the
Pacific coast of Mexico, and to land them there a ship would
have to go round Cape Horn.
The France states that the authorities of Brest
according to instructions received from Paris, duly
informed the consignees of the Confederate steamer Florida
that a dock was at the disposal of that vessel to effect all the
repairs of which she stood in need. In consequence a
steamtug belonging to the port went into the roadstead on
the 6th and took the Forida into one of the docks prepared
for liar. Shipwrights belonging to private yards were
authorised to enter the arsenal and immediately commenced
the repairs necessary to put the vessel in good sea-going
condition.
THE CONDEMNED CRIMINALS IN KIRKDALE
GAOL.—Up to a late hour on Wednesday Captain
Gibb 3, the worthy governor of the gaol, had not received
any intimation from the Home-office with respect to the
commutation of the capital sentence in the case of O'Brien,
Alvarez, or Thomas, the criminals condemned at the recent
assizes. The chaplain of the gaol communicated to Hughes,
condemned for the murder of his wife, the unsuccessful re-
sult of the intercession on his behalf. The unhappy man,
did not manifest any surprise,
who seems truly ponitent,
having evidently made up his mind for the worst. The
executions will take place on Saturday next, at noon.—
Liverpood .Mercury,