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

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold a t Paris is about 2i per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.27 per LI sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. No. per ounce for standard gold, it appe4.-s that gold is
nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By adviczs from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per Ll stcrli
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, 2-it,tha
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 276, t 3 278 per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold 1551 to ,57 percent. Uo.d still continues to
arrive in moderate quantities.

Tile Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lord
Wharneliffe, and two other gentlemen shot over Long-
shawe-moor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
and had good sport. On the first-named day the five guns
produced 209 i brace of grouse.

MR. WEEKE'S STATUE OF JOHN HUNTER, which
was exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, has been
placed in the Hunterian 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 Scam 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," &e. 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 Rome of Cardinal Savelli, ex-minister, and formerly
governor of that city, in his 72nd year.
Linant-Bey, Minister of Public Works to the
Viceroy of Egypt, has left Marseilles for Alexandria on
board the iffeeris.
manthought,
JOHN TAYLOR, who has just ended his quiet and
blameless
prudentee ss f d
Peculation
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he put forward ai wild notion, it was done in a man-
ner which madeit look like something to be can-
llaine o f
cautious literary ou
of xthrte,na mfrs,
s
the
can-
vassed. In his attempt to fix the character of Junius
upon Sir Philip Francis, some p.-"rsons think he
has had a success; provisionally, Francis is the
man in must minds, all the country through. His
cinropia, as the number of tile Boast, Will'bo voted
as good as any of the others. His attempts to got deep
theology out of Greek particles ate shared by other scholars.
His notion, to which he devoted much writing, of helping
the currency byExcbequer 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 own subjective creations. His highly religious
feeling, in combination with other ails from his own
temperament, gave reality to the mysterious parts of the
orthodox 53 stem ; his mind was an Athanasian creed with
the damnatory clauses artathemised. 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 seo the finger of God in the dimensions
of the Pyramid. The annals of this mystery show a suc-
cession of attempts which yield in number and vagary only
to the of the Blois.—.4ltheticeain.