The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-26 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.221 per .C 1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Li
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appeo.rs that gold is
about 1-11th per oent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sit rlin
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
7-I,,ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London tor bills s t
60 days' sight is abut 263 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 141 per cent. At these rates there is a small profit
on the importation of go d frxn the United States.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for a
small and early assembly this evening at Cambridge House,
Baron and Baroness Blome received a select
party at dinner last evening at the Hanoverian Legation in.
Grosvenor-place.
Sir Roderick and Lady Murchison entertained a
small party at dinner last evening at their residence in
Belgrave•square.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs Disraeli
have left Hughenden Manor for Caddo&lon Palace, Oxon,
on a visit to the Bishop of Oxford.
Mr. M. D. Wray, 99, Davies-street, Berkeley-
square, wishes to have it stated that he is not the person
alluded to in the case of " Wray alias Henery," tried at
the Central Criminal Court on the 24th inst.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE LATE DUKE

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OF NEWCASTLE.—We understand his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales has, through General Knollys, signified
his desire to place a painted window in the chancel of the
beautiful church at Shireoak, near Worksop, in memory of
its lamented founder. The present Duke of Newcastle has
also expressed to the incumbent his intention of erecting a
handsome reredos. These, with the two windows offered by
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr
0 avrey, the late Duke's solicitor, and two others to be raised
by the parishioners, will form a noble memorial of one who
was in life beloved, and is now in death deeply lamented,
and will make the church at Shirooak one of the most beau-
tiful in Nottinghamshire. The Prince of Wales laid the
first stone of the edifice on St Luke's day, 1861; the church
was consecrated by the Bishop of Lincoln on October 14,
1863; and the Duke died on the first anniversary, St.
Luke's day, 1864.

TESTIMONIAL TO THE CHIEF CLERK AT THE
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY STATION, READIN 0.-
A. meeting of a very gratifying kind was held on Thursday
evening at the large waiting-room of the Great Western
Railway Station, Reading, for the purpose of presenting a
valuable testimonial—subscribed for by upwards of 60 of
the railway servants of that station—to Mr George Bland,
for several years the chief clerk, who had discharged his
duties in a manner which bad won for hi►n general respect

'rom the railway officials and the travelling public, and
who is about to reruhve to Paddington. The testimonial,
consisting of a beautiful timepiece, a pair of elegant flower
vases, and a chaste inkstand, was presented by Mr Harper.
one of the inspectors, and Mr Weightman, the goods super-
intendent, and others connected with the line, bore testis
mony to the kindness of character and gentlemanly conduct
of Mr Bland. Mr Bland, in feeling terms, expressed his
heartfelt thanks for the unexpected present; and after a
vete of thanks had been presented to Mr Harper, and re-
peated cheers for Mr Bland, the meeting broke up.
HOW TO GO MAD.—Be an editor; let rue devil
be waiting for copy ; sit down to write an article, and get
a few sentences done ; then let an acquaintance drop in and
begin to tell you stories and gossip of the town; and let
him sit, and sit, and sit. This is the quickesGtwe
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by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, paid to the treasurer of the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, the sum of £375, being a portion
of a bequest made by the late Madame de Lilly to her
Majesty for the benefit of the poor of London. This liberal
donation is indeed a practical recognition by the Crown of
the great benefits conferred on the poor; through the agency
of this excellent institution, the committee of manageuieut
of which have had but recently to incur large liabilities in
order to meet the daily increasing demands of the sick pour
on the funds of this hospital.
THE LACY OF FINAL APPEAL IN CASES AFFECT.
ING DOCTRINE.--The following rather curious
announcement .appears in the Moth and ktase Review :
" The Provisional Committee of the Association for Amend-
ment of the Law of Final Appeal in Cases Doctrine have
agreed to promote petitions based upon the principle fol-
lowing—That for the time to come no Archbishop or
Bishcp have any piece in the Comt of Final Appeal,
whether as member of the court or assessor; but that, in
cases affecting doctrine brought before the court, it •is
essential that the doctrine of the Church be ' declared in-
terpreted and shewed' by reference to the spirituality."