The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mille pm., an d
the short exchange on London is 25.30 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
nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 281 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 157 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the
importation of gold fro the United States.

THE NEW SERIAL in All the Year Round will
appear, it is said, with the title, " Never Forgotten." The
writer some time since produced " Bella Donna," and it
was then said that Mr Percy Fitzgerald, a barrister of the
Northern Circuit, was the author.
FATAL ACCIDENT TN A WELL.--.A13 accident of a
fatal, but by no means of an uncommon character,
occurred at Garstang, Lancashire, very recently. The son
of a farmer in that district descended by a ladder into an old
well for the purpose of examining the discharge pipe. He
fell from the ladder, when his brother went to assist him.
He also fell, and a third person present shouted for help,
but only in time to rescue one of the brothers. The other
was suffocated by the foul air in the well.

Mr Nelson Girdlestone, who, since the retirement
of the late chief clerk, has undertaken the onerous
duties which fall to the share of the official immediately
under the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, has received an
acting appointment, which, although it does not promote
him over the heads of his seniors, will enable him to stand
in the same position to Mr Dundas as did the lamented Mr
J. R. Clark —Army and _Navy Gaz,tle
CURIOUS CASE OF CONTEMPT OF COURT.—The
daughter of a furniture bioker, a good-looking girl of about
20, was fined £lO for contempt of Court on Saturday by Mr
J. B. Aspinall, the Recorder of Liverpool. A writ was
served upon the girl's mother in a wrong name. The
daughter, altnough she had nothing to do with the action,
appeared at the Court of passage as the defendant, and
sought to obtain a verdict on the technical point that the
writ had been served on the wrong person. The Recorder
said the girl knew perfectly well that the writ was intended
for her mother, and she had resorted to this trick to mislead
the Court ; the correctness of the name was immaterial, and
a verdict was entered for the plaintiff.
ABDUCTION.—At the Leeds Assizes on Thursday
Hudson Brook, labourer, was charged with unlaw.

fully taking Mary Bradshaw out of the possession and
against the will of Henry Ward, her employer, who had the
lawful charge of her, and also against the will of her father
and mother. Mr. West was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Wheelhouse for the defence. The prisoner had lived same
time in the house of the girl's father at Bramhope, near
Otley, and previous to his leaving his lodgings, the
young woman had gone to the service of Mr. Ward,
of Woodhouse Carr, rear Leeds. The acquaintance,
therefore, between the prisoner, who is 35 years
of age, and the girl, whose age at the time was
only 15, must have commenced in her father's house. On
the 22d Argil, the girl suddenly left her master's house,
and she and the prisoner had subsequently been living to-
gether as man and wife at Bradford. The girl, on being
examined, stated that she met the prisoner by appointment
at Apperley Bridge, on the 22d of April, and they went to-
gethar to the 'Waterloo Inn, at Bradford, where they lodged
together as man and wits. In cross-examination the girl
admitted that when she met the prisoner at first he told her
she had taken a foolish step, and tried to induce her to go
back home. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and the
prisoner was sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

THE WATERLOO BRIDGE MTSTERY.—By the
mail which left England for Tasmania on the 17th instant
the police have forwarded to the widow of the supposed
victim who was alluded to in the correspondence referring
to this subject, which has been recently published in the
Daily Telegraph, carefully-taken and coloured photographs
of the coat anti waistcoat, and the carpet bag in which,
with certain human remains, they were found when the
bag was found on one of the buttresses of Waterloo Bridge.
The articles in question ware thus copied by direction of
Sir Richard Mayne on Monday last.

MR W. F. WlNDilAm.—This singular individual
is now working a coach with great regularity between
Norwich, North Walsham, and Cromer; Mr Windham is
no longer proprietor of the coach, but discharges his duties
as "coachee"—looking after the luggage, the way-bill, &c.,
in an exemplary manner. He has become extremely fat,
and has a very jolly appearance. His coach is threatened,
however, with the all-powerful opposition of the locomotive
the East Norfolk Railway Company being about to earn_
mence the construction of a line between Norwich and
North Walsham. It should not be forgotten that Mr,
Windham's father was once M.P. for East Norfolk, that
one of his uncles was a lieutenant-general in the army,
and another a marquis I
PURCFIASE OF ENGLISH THOROUG/IBREDS FOR
THE KING OF ITALY.—The King of Italy has just pur-
chased of Mr hl. Webster of Allerston, near Pickering,
Yorkshire, his celebrated entire horse Canute, and of Mr
lludaon,
s of.
Brightonhe
ai his equally renowned horse General
m r are famous for their victories at the
aT p
vgrio,:s agricultural showa. The exact prices have not
transpira.l, but very long figures have been obtained.

wsrAFERS BY RAILWAY.—The Caledonian
Railway has jot adopted a plan for the transmis-
sion of single copies Cf newspapers by rail which is likely
to prove of great use to :iewspaper readers on that line over
the localit'es it traverses. 'ihe system is simply sn issue
of farthing stamps, prepared 'liter the fashion of postage
threepence.'
stamps ; perforated and gurned line these, they are sold
ibeninshgeeotsf
containing a
d cz n '
th
The ,sea
course
impress :—" Caledonian Railway. No. ("Y) 2586.
e priterc op t the sheet
bears the
For one newspaper only. To be called for by con-
signee at the station on the Caledonian Railway to which
it is addressed." To all subscribers who can conveniently
send for their newspapers at any station on the Caledonian
line we are now enabled by this system to transmit the
paper by the first morning train at a cost of d. per day for
carriage—that is, at a fourth of the cost of postage. Btsides
residents on the line, gentlemen in business who,may ds-
sire to read the paper in the train on their way to town in
the morning may thus arrange to have it waiting them at
the station from which they start. It to be hoped that
other lines will not be slow in following the Caledonian in
the adoption of this einiple aad c,ouveuieut
man,