The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3i per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.35 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17sounce ° d. perh
gold, it appears that gold is
rather
cent. dearer in London than in
Paris. moretan 3 for.
li
tstandardh e
per
ii

By advie:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 staling.
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price is, therefore, about
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London
nedwl ionn than in Hamburg.
rii7h the
tork on London for bills at
60 days' sight is quoted 278 t. 280 per cent., and the pre-
mium on gold 157 to 1581 per cent. Goad still continues to
be imported in very moderate quantities.

A general meeting of shareholders of the Bank
of British Columbia took place yesterday. The report
presented for adoption stated that the amount of
undivided profit at the conclusion of the half year
ending 30th June last, was £11,105 16s 6d. Out
of this sum the directors propose to appropriate
£5,000 to paying a dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent, per annum, free of income tax; to add £4,000
to the Reserve Fand, which is thereby increased to
£6,000; and to carry forward £2,105 16s 6d to the
current year.
ACCIDENTS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN Ranway.—Yesterday (Monday) much anxiety
was caused in Liverpool in consequence of a rumour that
an accident of a very alarming nature had occurred to the
London express, due in Liverpool at 12.30 p.m. On making
inquiries, however, we learned that the express train ran off
the line near Weedon, but, beyond a fright, none of the
passengers were injured. In consequence of this mishap
there was a delay of between two or three hours in the de-
livery of the mid-day mails.
COST OF THE AMERICAN WAR.—The New York
World reckons the cost of the present war thus :—Expen-
diture on army and navy, 3,000,000,000 dela ; bounties paid
by States and towns, 450,000,000 dots; loss for life of the
labour of the killed and maimed, 2,000,000,000 dols ; loss
of three years' labour of other soldiers, 8,000,000,000 do's ;
property destroyed on the ocean, 300,000,000 dole; loss of
profits of commerce, 700,000,000 dole ; property destroyed on
land, 2,000,000,000 dole ; pensions to wounded and widows
for life, 400,000,000 dols—making a total of 15,050,000,000.
DENMARK DESERTED BY ENGLAND—NOT BY
WALES !—The Prince and 13110CCEIS of Wales, says
the London I?nnetv, continue to be received with the greatest
warmth, and even enthusiasm, whenever they appear in
public in Denmark. Although their visit is a strictly pri-
vate one, and has no political signification, it is impossible
not to attach some
meaning to the popular greeting by
which they have been welcomed. It indicates, no doubt,
principally, the personal popularity of the reigning family,
but it also shows that the Dams still cling to their indepen-
dent national existence, and are by no means inolined to
submit to absorption by the other Scandinavian kingdom.
Had any disposition of this kind existed, it must have made
sympathise heartily with their King
itself felt on an cocasion of this kind, in coolness and indif-
ference to the joys and sorrows of the royal household.
That the people still
and his child Ken, notwithstanding the misfortunes of the
country, is a sign:that there is no wavering in their alle-
giance to Christian IX—no inclinaiion to cast on the mo-
narch the blame of reverses which he has been powerless to
avert. For Englishmen, the most interesting incident of
the visit is one which occurred on the arrival of the royal
party at Bernsdorff. In reply
to the welcome which they
met, the King assured his subjects that his daughter's
heart was cno with theirs, and that it had felt and bled
for all their sorrows. This is, of course, nothing more
than might have been expected, and, had his Majesty
stopped there, his speech would have excited little
attention. He went on, however, to say that the
Prince of Wales shared the feelings of hie wife, and that
he too sympathised with Denmark under the grievous
wrongs to which she has been subjected. We cannot avoid
accepting as perfectly authentic a statement so publicly
made in the presence of the Prince of Wales. It amounts,
indeed, to no more than we believed before; but at the same
time it is satisfactory to know, on unexceptionable autho.
rity, that the heir-apparent to the throne thinks and feels
like the great body of his countrymen, and that he at any
rate is not drawn by any German connections into predilec-
tions at variance with those of the English people. The
King's announcement, which was no doubt made with the
consent of his Royal Highness, naturally excited an en-
thusiastic
ladin
r reasons©;
Great Britain for the part she has
ede
and, whatever resentment may still be
:tent events, no portion of it will henceforth be
entertainedvisitedp ye
uor
en
the Prince of Wales.

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We have to
just been made
ANTIQUARIAN DIGGINGS IN ABERDEENSHIRE.
diggings
filva
in this county. The first was carried out on the 13th
ABERDEENSHIRE.—The
result
tee ofn
two Journal iii
eesu
instant in several cairns on the estate of Rothie, belonging
,
to Colonel Forbes Leslie: Two of the cairns were situated
on a piece of rough
whinny ground on the farm of Blind-
well. They were low circular structures of no great size.
In the first a small cist was found, containing only
a quantity of calcined bones. In the second, a eist was
found which contained an urn with portions of bones and
fragments of a curious jet necklace. A similar cairn on the
same slope was recently opened and found to contain a
large urn in the centre. The urn contained a quantity of
bones. The third cairn now opened was in the middle
a i
a cultivated field, and it appeared to have been
surrounded by a row of large boulders, and to have
had a raised inner circular platform. Nothing was
discovered beyond a deposit in the latter space, of which
fragments of bones and burned matter only remained. A
cairn similar in its arrangement to the last was placed on
the adjoining farm of Burreldales, and was recently removed.
It was examined by Mr Chalmers, Who has described the
results in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in
Scotland. Some vestiges of Druidical circles occur in the
neighbourhood, as well as traces of the hut circles of the
people, who had selected the dry slopes of those now fertile
braes as the site for their abode, as well as of their final
resting places, It would appear that some of the bodies in
the cairns had been burned. and others not ; while some of
the banes appeared to be thcse of the lower animals. The
second digging took place on the 14th instant in a remark-
able cairn on the farm of W arrackstene, in the parish of
Tullynessle. It was a flat circular structure, surrounded
with big stones in the foundation, depressed towards the
centre, and having, raised all round, a ridge towards the
circumference. In this ridge, at different places, four
elate were discovered, formed of large slabs. In most of
them urns were found. At two spots on the south side large
runs, inverted, containing incinerated bones, were found,
i
without cists, in holes formed n the stones and subsoil; and
at two other spots higher up in the cairn, small cavities of
irregular form were noticed, in which wore bones which
did not seem to have been burned. In the centre of the
cairn, deposits of burned matter, containing bones, were
found. One of the large urns was decorated with a pro-
jecting zig-zag band, in great relief with other patterns
commonly found on cinerary urns,"