The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

RACING FIXTU:

Egham
Dover .. lB
Oxford .. 18
Yarmouth
York August 2E

SEPT:

Weymouth 1
Baden-Baden 1
Warwick September 6
Bridgwater 8
Leicester 8
Doncaster ..

OCTi

Bedford
Edinburgh and Lothians _

Brecon .. 19
Richmond
Royal Caledonian Hunt 21
Monmouth 22
Manchester Autumn
NewmarketFirst October 27
,BER

Lincoln
Kelso ....
Gloucester
Newmarket Houg on 24
:MBER.

Club.- .. 5
Newmarket Second Oct. 10

NQYE.

Worcester Autumn .... 1
Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14

Leamington &War. Hunt 22

IRISH.
SEPTEMBER.

Carragh

OCTOBER.

Carragh

STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

NOVEMBER.
Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

The Price of Gold.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchany on London is 13.5 j per £1 sarling.
Standard gold at the floglish Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of eichange at New York on London and the
premium on gold are quoted with such large differences that
no ca cu ations can be based on them ; but gold continues to
be shipped to England.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On
oomparing these rates with the English Mint price of .C 3
17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-10 the per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.

Al TACK ON A NEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPER
OFFICk; BY THE CREW OF A MAN•OF-WAR.--,
The follow:ng episode of the war in New Zealand is given
by the Ilielbotwne Argus, The" Auckland New Zealander
had, in an artiCle published on the Ist of June, referring to
as the forlorn hope in
the death of Cap,t. Hamilton, of the Esk, stated :—' It is
feared that this brave officer was cruelly deserted by his
men, who were seized With a panic and fled back to our
a critical moment, but if the
men had displayed half the courage and daring of their
theposi attack.tposition,
after
I t beingis true g i
t a
w;Ja antlY
led
..
officers a very different result we'uld have to be chronicled
respecting this unfortunate encounter.'
This offended
the seamen of the Esk, who in numbers 60 strong, came
down to the office, and commenced proceedings which por-
tended pulling the building—a wooden one—down. One
of these men cried out, We have the authority of our offi-
cers for what we are doing.' Magistrates interfered to
prevent violence, the police were called, and Commodore Sir
William Wiseman appealed to, but in vain. The police
were unable to cope with the rioters, and the commodore
corroborated the assertion that the officers connived at the
riot by not interfering, Temporising was resorted to • and,
on the promise that an extraordinary eiitiou should issue,
retracting the previous statement, the scan;en retired. The
extraordinary edition came out with a ridiculous denial of
the charge against tin Naval Brigade, and attributing
the
panic which caused the sudden retreat to a mistake of the
63th Regiment, This, it was also mentioned, was the
substance of the statement made by the rioting seamen,
and it was signed John P. Beckett, Quartermaster.'
On Thursday
night last a murder was committed
in a house in the Avenue Lamotte-piquet, on the person of
a young woman of loose character named Eugenio Elie,
aged 25. A dragoon who called at her lodgings on Fri-
day morning found her lying dead on the floor of her
bedroom, with a calico night jacket twisted into a cord
drawn so tightly round her neck as to have forced a great
quantity of blood from her nostrils. As the unfortunate
woman's money and jewellery were found safe in her
drawers, robbery could hardly have been the motive for tile
crime, unless, indeed, the murderer had become alarmed,
and had not time to search for plunder. An investigation,
has bccu ordcrcd ih)1,..0.1,Q