The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchang on London is 13.51 per £1 sterlin4.
standard gold at the FAiglish Mirt price is, therefore, about
3-10tha per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London and the
premium on gold are quoted with such large differences that
no ca cu actions can be based on them ; but gold continues to
be shipped to England.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mills pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.27; per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of S.l
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-lfths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.

ATTACK ON A NEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPER
OFFICE BY THE CREW OF A MAN-OF-WAR.--.
The following episode of the war in New Zealand is given
by the _Melbourne Argus, The " Auckland New Zealander
had, in an article published on the Ist of June, referring to
the death of Capt. Hamilton, of the Esk, stated :—' It is
feared that this brave officer was cruelly deserted by his
men, who were seized with a panic and fled back to our
position, after being gallantly led as the forlorn hope in
the attack. It is true it was a critical moment, but if the
men had displayed half the courage and daring of their
officers a very different result would have to be chronicled
respecting this unfortunate encounter.' This offended
the seamen of the Esk, who in numbers 60 strong, came
down to the office, and commenced proceedings which por-
tended pulling the building—a wooden one—down. One
of these men cried out, ' We have the authority of our ()Ri-
cers for what we are doing.' Magistrates interfered to
prevent violence, the police were called, and Commodore Sir
William Wiseman appealed to, but in vain. The police
were unable to cope with 'the rioters, and the commodore
corroborated the assertion that the officers connived at the
riot by not interfering. Temporising was resorted to ; and,
on the promise that an extraordinary edition should issue,
retracting the previous statement, the seamen retired. The
extraordinary edition came out with a ridiculous denial of
the charge against th 3 Naval Brigade, and attributing the
panic which caused the sudden retreat to a mistake of the
68th Regiment, This, it was also mentioned, was the
substance of the statement made by the rioting seamen,
and it was signed ' John P. Beckett, Quartermaster."'
On Thursday night last a murder was committed
in a house in the Avenue Lamotte-piquet, on the person of
a young woman of loose character named Eugenie Elie,
aged 25. A dragoon who called at her lodgings on Fri-
day morning found her lying dead on the floor of her
round her neck as to have forced a great
drawn
nom jacket twisted into a cord
so,
tightly with a calico night
quantity of blood from her nostrils. As the unfortunate
woman's money and jewellery were found safe in her
drawers, robbery could hardly have been the motive for the
crime, unless, indeed, the murderer had become alarmed,
and had not time to search for plunder. An investigation
has been ordered by the police authorities.
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The Fascio Romano states that as a young girl,
Annetta
shot at and dangerously wounded by some person uuknown.,
sitting
The act is attibuted to private vengeance.
The .Nazione of Florence states that General
Fanti's state of health causes considerable uneasiness. Be
is suffering from a disease of the heart complicated with a
pulmonary congestion occasioning great difficulty of
breathing.
A letter from Pietragalla (Neapolitan provinces)
rel,.tes the following instance of the unexampled
barbarity of the brigands :—A man named Francesco
Zotte, who had often served as a volunteer agelust
the brigands, was surprised by them a few days
ago, immediately boand hand and foot, and beaten
nearly to death with bludgeons. After the infliction
of this torture, he was shot dead with revolvers ;
his body was then saturated with spirits of wine
and cut on a pile of wood, which wcs set lire to ;
and on the folowing morning the country people
found his remains carbonised,