The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-30 00:00:00

The Frice of Gold.

By advices fromilamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.64 per £1 stcrlin4.
,tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
Ttie,;ourse of exchange at New York on London for bills a
60 days' sight is about 200 per cent., and the premium on
gold is abput 62 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per raffle pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.174 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of A 3
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 1-ICth per cent. dearer in Paris than London.

ZIISS KATE GORDON'S first Matinee Musicale is
announced to take place in the Collard Concert
Rooms to-morrow at 3 p.m. Miss Gordon appears in her
first morning t ntertainmmt under most distinguished
patronage. A more than usually select and attractive pro•
gamtne has been issued, and Miss Gordon has secured
the services of Madame Weiss, Miss M. Poole, Mr. Walker,
and Signor Nappi. Miss Gordon will preside at the piano;
the Herr Booths on the violin and violoncello. From the
talents of the fair pianist and the recognition of her claims
by the aristocracy, a fashionable audience will doubtless
be present on this occasion.

MRS. DISRAELI'S "AT HOME."—On Saturday
afternoon Mrs. Disraeli was "at home," at the right
hon. member for Buckinghamshire's house in Park-lane.
The party was attended by upwards of 300 persons, The
house, which commands an uninterrupted view of the
park, was fitted up expressly for the accommodation of a
large party, the roof being converted into a comfortable
position to see the review of the Rifle Volunteers. The
French and Austrian Ambassadors, the Duke and Duchess
of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the
Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl and Countess Stanhope,
the Countess of Shaftesbury, Viscountess Jocelyn, Sir
John and Lady Pakington, Lord and Lady Claud
Hamilton, Lord and Lady Colchester, were amongst those
present,

NOT DEAD YET. By J. C. Seaffreson, author of
"Live it Down," &c. 3 vols.—Mr. Seaffreson's
talent, says the Athenceum, has certainly gained in ripe•
ness and fullnese of flavour, like fruit on a wall in a sunny
aspect. His present novel is in every rebpect satisfactory-.
It has a well-contrived, well built-up plot; it is carefully
written. The writer has evidently taken pains, and there
is much good work put into the book, which has a solidity
and force that impress the reader with a sense of the reality
of the story. We have read it through with interest, and
can recommend it to our readers. It is a healthy pleasant
book."

SMALL DEBTS.—Lord S. Leonards has given
notice of his intention to propose in committee
several alterations in the Lord Chancellor's County Courts
Bill. Among them are three new clauses, proposed to be
inserted, to the following efftct :—No packman or person
taking or sending his goods for sale from house to house
shall recover against tha husband or father of any wife or
daughter to whom any such goods shall have been or shall
hereafter be sold for the price of the same, unless such hus-
band or father shall have teen present at such sale, and
sanctioned the same ; no action to lie upon a sale by auction
of goods under the value of £2O upon credit, unless the pur-
chaser and his surety (if any) sign the coatract after the
sale; no person or body to issue more than 20 plaints at any
one court,

FEARFUL ARTILLERY ACCIDENT.—The D bat-
tery, 3d Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, were out
at drill at Bellary on the sth of April last. They had just
galloped past in columns of half batteries left in front,when
the word " Trot" was given ; they had hardly broken into
a trot when the limber of No. 5, one of the three leading
guns, exploded, killing four men on the spot and wounding
seven others ; 13 horses were wounded, three of which had
obe shot on the spot. The ground all along looked like a
small battle-field after an action. It was covered with pieces
of flesh, uniform, and harness, and the bodies of the poor
fellows who were killed. Two were lying quite close to the
gun not much disfigured, and the two others were about
100 yards off. where they had fallen, fearfully disfigured.
They were blown about SO yards into the air. All that re-
mained of one poor fellow was his chest and head ; arms
and everything else were gone. No cause can be assigned
for the explosion. The limber boxes were filled with the
regulated allowance of ammunition, and had been packed in
presence of an officer and sergeant on the Ist ult. No blame
is attached to any one. The remains of the poor fellows
were followed to their last resting place by the whole of the
artillery and a large number of the officers and men of the
2d battalion 21st Fusiliets. The following is the list of the
men killed and wound, d :—Killed—Gunners Hickey,
Healon, Townley, and Toohey. Wounded—Gunners Mul-
catry, Gower, M'Mahon, Connor, Power, and Lindsay ;
Farrier-Sergeant Taylor and Gunner Lydon, who had his
kridle arm smashed at the wrist. It has since been. ampu-
tated. They are all doing well.

The Court of Assizes of the Hersult has just tried.
two Italians, named Novarre and Trinca, on a charge of
having attempted to murder a farm-steward, named Ber-
trand, residing at La Paine. near Montpellier. Another
Italian, named Rastucci, was also charged as the instigator
of the crime. On the evening of the 25th November last,
after dark, Bertrand was seated by his fire-side, when a
stranger suddenly entered the house and stabbed him from
behind. The wounded man immediately seized his assailant,
and a struggle ensued, in which Bertrand received a cut in
each hand. Madame Bertrand then cams to her husband's
aid, but was disabled by a stab. This diversion, how-
ever, enabled her husband to fetch his gun from the
next room, and ho was returning with it, when the assas-
sin and an accomplice, who had been waiting outside,
both fell on him, and endeavoured to get possession of the
gun. Not succeeding, the two fellows ran away, and Ber-
trand fired after them, as he thought, without effect.
Several Italians were arrested on suspicion, and one of them
denounced Novarre and Trinca as the assassins, and Ras-
tucci as their instigator, the latter having had some quarrel
with Bertrand about payment for work. All three were
accordingly arrested, and it was found that the shoes of
Novarre and Trinca exactly corresponded with the footsteps
in the field across which the assassins had run on escaping
from Bertrand's house. A witness also deposed that he
had seen Rastucci extract a number of small shot from the
baek of Novarre's neck. Twenty-eight witnesses were
examined, and their evidence clearly brought the crime
home to the prisoners, who were accordingly found guilty,

and each sentenced to 15 years' hard labour.
LAVING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A Rumor
CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—On Saturday afternoon the
foundation stone o: a new chapel, to be called St. William's,
was laid in Simpson-stiet, Angel Meadow, by the Rev.
W, J. Sheenan, rector of St. Chad's, Cheetham Hill.
There was a large attendance. The officiating ministers
were the Revs. S. H. Clarkson and T. Reyes. The chapel
will be built of bricks, stone being only introduced where
necessary. The design will be plain Gothic. The cost
will be above £l,OOO,
of which £7OO hag been subscribed;
and the building will afford secommodationfor between 700
oueo tyth ofe them
has since
and 800 people. The builder is Mr.
Thomas Tully,
Broughton-lane, Manchester; and the architect le M.Brussels
Rae
Tijou, Corporation street. The chapel will be used occa-
sionally as a school-room.
TPlies t l i
go i vneens s
birthf the
three .
'lf)cgublesg-1 Society
died, bat the other two are doing well.
The sixth ordinary meeting
o
of shareholders of
the Royal Panama, New Zealand, and Aus.
tralian Mail Company was held today,
Lord Claud Hamilton, M.p.,
in the chair. Y'
report submitted for adoption stated thattheTrhe
ceipts for Government subsidies, freight, and se::
sage money were £118,702 6s. 6d. against £67,2331
6s. 10d. the previous year; while the
expenditure
on working account was £B4 900 19s. id. against
£46,926 15s. 2d. in 1862. After approprist.
ing £13,603 to '
repair, renewal, &c., account,
the difference in favour of the company is
£20,201 7
•s. 5d., which, added to ;the balance
brought forward from last account, makes the
total amount to the credit of profit and loss ac-
count, £21,195 16s. The directors had set apart
£4,750 for depreciation, being 6 per cent. on the cost
of the remaining vessels of the original fleet of the
company. The entire balance of preliminary exa
pluses, &a., amounting to £4,645 17e. 2d. had been
written off; and the sum of £3,500 had been applied
in reduction of the balance to the debit of insurance
account. The dividend for the half-year ended
30th June, absorbed £3,278 4s. ; and the directors
now recommended the declaration of a dividend on
the old shares, ter the six months ended the 31st
Deoember, 1863, at the rate of 7 per c,!tit. per an.
num clear of income tax, which will amount to
£4,500.