The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per milk pm., and
the short exchange on London Lis 25.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
aboutl3.loths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices fromliamburg the price of gold is 4234 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, rather
more than 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Ham-

barg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 176} per cent., and the premium on gold is
about 0211 per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the
importation of gold from the United States.

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heavily, on Sunday, the twelfth of July, and there
LAND SLIPS.—It
outside, looking out for the boulders
were several landslips about the Shotover and Arrow
River.
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been seen of them since ; the man on watch was left stand-
ing unhurt. A man living on the Arrow River came out-
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his tent about the middle of the same night, when a
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all else in the flood, had to run for their lives --Dickens's
"fill the Year Round."

FEROCITY OF THE SWAN.—Yesterday the pro-
prietors of Wombwell's menagerie, at present ex-
hibiting in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, released two
fine pelicans with the humane intention of allowing them a
swim on the lake as a refresher before the arrival of the
visitors. Two of the company's swans, however, whose
rights had been thus unceremoniously invaded, made a
desperate attack upon then, the encounter commencing
with a collision between the " feather-clads," with all sails
set, the force of which fairly made each rebound. Singling
out the smaller pelican, the two swans belaboured him with
their wings and bills with a ferocity and formidableness that
was truly cut prising. The contest lasted upwards of 20
minutes, and would, doubtless, have ende whollyu to th
pelican but for the timely arrival of a keeper, cceeded,
by means of a canoe, in rescuing him with a broken wing
and well nigh exhausted, having been held under water, by
the joint efforts of the swans, for about 10 minutes. Exas..
perated at losing their victim, the swans then directed their
attack on the keeper, and capsized his canoe.
GREAT GUNS FOR CRONSTADT.—Eighty irrizzerse,
guns are about to be manufactured at M. Krupp's
celebrated foundry in Prussia. These guns are for the
Russian Government, and will be mounted at Cronstat.
They will carry a ball of 2001 b. weight, which will perforate
a four inch plate at the distance of three miles. Extraor-
dinary preparations are being made at an immense building,
which contains fifty steam engines. The hammer to be
used weighs 300,0001 b., and the anvil will be of correspond..
L lug weight,