The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of La
17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 k per Xi stErlin_
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, 2-Iteths
per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is quoted 2761 t) 27S per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold. 155§ to .i 57 per cent. Gold still continues to
ar_ive in moderate quantities.

The Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lora
Wharnclitfe, and two other gentlemen shot over Long-
shawe-muor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
and had good Fport. Oa the first-named day the five guns
produced 209 i brace of grouse.
MR. WEEKE'S STATUE OF .TOTIN HUNTER, which
was exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, has been
placed in the Ifunterian Museum, College of Surgeons,
Lincoln's-inn-fields.

AN ENERGETIC AS WELL AS GIFTED ARTIST.—
Mr. Leighton has in hand three pictures, which will
probably appear at the next Royal Academy Exhibition.
These are, 1, a subject from the Iliad, Helen going with
two attendants to the Scan Gate of Troy, to satisfy her
craving to see her husband and kinsfolk, before the pro-
posed duel between Menelaus and Paris ; this work com-
prises three figures, life size. No. 2 is from the Psalms,
David sitting on the roof of his palace and gazing at the
hills, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove," 67.0. No. 3is a
genre subject, a woman and child, the latter holding a basket
of cherries. This artist is engaged to paint the portrait of
the Prince of Wales for the Fishmongers' Hall. full-length,
with the garter and robes; also that of the Princess of
Wales. Mr Leighton has departed for Florence, in order
to assist at the erection of the beautiful monument of Mrs
Browning, which was designed by himself, and which we
recently described. This work will be finished in. October
next.

A despatch from Marseilles announces the death
at Romo of Cardinal Savelli, ex-minister, and formerly
governor of that oity, in his 72nd year.
L;nant-Bey, Minister of Public Works to the
Viceroy of Egypt, has left Marseilles for Alexandria on
board the Afieris.

JuHN TAYLOR, who has just ended his quiet and
blameless life of liteiary thought, was, of oar day,
the prudent and cautious man of extreme speculation I It
he put forward a wild notion, it was done in a man-
ner which made it look like something to be can-
vassed. In his attempt to fix the character of Junius
upon Sir Philip Francis, some persons think he
has had a success; provisionally, Francis is the
man in most minds, all the country through. His
einropia, as the number of the Beast, will be voted
as good as any of the others, His attempts to get deep
theology out of Greek particles are shared by other scholars.
His notion, to which he devoted much writing, of helping
the currency by Exchequer bills of small amount not bearing
interest, put into circulation as notes, and receivable in
payment of taxes, is one which he supported by very
plausible ;reasons. He lived a sedentary life, surrounded
by his
subjective creations. His highly religious
feeling, own
in combination with other aids from his own
temperament, gave reality to the mysterious parts of the
orthodox system ; his mind was an Athanasian creed with
the damnatory clauses entailer-Iliad. It is no marvel that
metrological speculation, one of the most seductive and mis-
guiding of all subjects to those who have a turn for it,
should lead him to see the finger of God in the dimensions
of the Pytatuid. The annals of this mystery show a suc-
cession of attempts which yield in number and vagary only
to the t (paring of the circle.—Athertantm.
The Prefect of the Nord has just founded an inA
stitution called the " Society of Invalids of Labour,"
the object of which is to grant temporary or per-
manent assistance to the work.people of Lisle, who
may have been disabled in the cserose of their

calling.
HAMBURG, Sept. 2.—The Russian Hereditary
Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrowitch has left to-
day for Copenhagen, where his betrothal with the
Princess Maria Dagniar, second daughter of King
Christian is to be celebrated. The prince is 21
years of age had the idioms 17.