The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market rather firmer. Sales, probably 6,000
bales.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mile pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.221 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By adviccs from Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 stcrliu..
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefcre, about
7-It4hs per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New Yak on London for bills a t
60 days' sight is abut 263 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 141 per cent. At these rates there is a small profit
on the importation of go'd fr.= the United States.

Mr Ferguson states that the survey of Jeru•
salem under Lieut, Wilson and his party of Sappers; is
going Eon most satisfactorily. " The P aches authority
affords them complete protection, and he gives them every
facility they require, so that by next summer we may hope
to have as perfect a survey of Jerusalem as we have of any
English city, and to know as much as can be known of its
mysterious water supply and of the means by which its
sanitary condition may be improved."

. -
UP A TREE.—A Prince Edward Island paper re•
latex the iollowing :—" Last week Mr .1. M‘D3nald,
of Cambelton, whilst searching in the woods for his cattle,
came suddenly,aeross a bear with two cubs. M'Donald
was accompanied by a boy about 15, and they, seeing the
bear was making for them, both ran away—the boy bound-
ing off like a deer in one direction, and M'Donald in
another, and the bear full pelt after M'Donald. Over wind-
falls and through hemlocks and cedars they go; the Scotch.
man strong and active, and the bear bounding like a bull,
the woods echoing, twigs snapping, and dust flying at
each spring. For nearly half an hoar the race goes on.
M'Donald, beginning to find his strength failing, his heart
grows ;faint as he finds the monster gaining on him.
Soon a tree catches his eager eye, he grasps the friendly
branches, but the savage brute grasps his heel and draws
him down, tut only for a second. Another spring and
M'Donald is well up, the bear eagerly following, but down
he falls, and falls at each furious attempt to ascend. For
a considerable time did the brute try to get up, and
M'Donald's courage reviving, he looked calmly down and
said, "Dick, if herself had her gun but she would give
somesin." M'Donald threw down his coat in hopes of the
bear going away, which he did, after tearing the coat to
shreds with one grab. The boy had in the meantime ar-
rived home and alarmed the settlement, who entered the
forest at dark, with guns, &3. Soon McDonald's shout was
heard, and the answering cheer sent back caused a thrill of
joy to vibrate in his heart. The tree that saved him was a
spruce about eight inohes through.

RAILWAY BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF COMBIONS---.
Yesterday was the last day for the deposit of books of re.
ferenoes, plans of sections, and other documents connected
with railway and other local bills for the next session of
Parliament. In the late session the number of private bills
was 504, the principal portion of which related to railways.
It is stated that in the next session they will possibly reach
600. The plans and sections were deposited with the clerks
of the peace, and also at the Board of Trade. On or before
the 15th December inst. notices must be served on all oc-
cupiers, lessees, and owners of property set forth in the
books of reference ; and on or before the 23d inst. all peti-
tions for private bills must be lodged at the Privre Bill
Office of the House of Commons. _

The Pays ;;;;---:"We have receiN ed accounts
from Mexico which inform us that public trans
quillity has not been disturbed during the last fortnight.
The population of the capital were awaiting with impatience
the return of the Emperor Maximilian, and ovations every-
where attended him during his tour in the provinces. On
the he is to occupy himself with the
administrative returnof his
Maiy
organisationest of the Country, and particularly
with that of the finances. He intends, it is said, to cause
the execution as speedily as possible of great public works
which, from a serious examination of the wants of the coun-
try, he has found to be indispensable for the development
of its prosperity,