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., and
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appers that gold is
nearly 3 -I(..ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

The ^.ollrße of exchange at New York on London for bills £t
60 days' sight is about 28t per cent., and the premium on
gold is 157 percent. At these rates there is a profit on the
United States.
importation of gold fro the

FATAL ACCIDENT TN A WELL.— An 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,
hut 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 heats of his seniors, will enable him to stand
in the same position to Mr Dundas as did the lamented Mr
3. R. Clark —Army and ./Vavy Gazale
CURIOUS CASE OF CONTEMPT OF COURT.—Tbe
daughter of a furniture broker, 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 tt ick 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, near 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 April, the girl suddenly left her master's house,
cud she and the prisoner had subsequently been living to-
get.her as man and wife at Bradford. The girl, on being
exam,:ned, stated that she met the prisoner by appointment
Bridge, on the 22d of April, and they went to-
at Apps rieY
gether to the Waterloo Inn, at Bradford, where they lodged
together as itan and wife. 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 j1.77y found a verdict of guilty, and the
prisoner was sentencet; to 3 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.
THE WATERLOO BRIDGE MYSTERY.—By the
mail which left England for Tasmania on the 17th install
the police have forwarded to the widaw 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 and 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.
NEWSPAPERS BY RAILWAY.—The Caledonian
Railway has just adopted a plan for the transmis-
sion of single copies of newspapers by rail which is likely
to prove of great use to newspaper readers on that line over
the localit es it treverses. The system is simply an issue
of farthing stamps, prepared after the fashion of postage
stamps; perforated and gumed like these, they are sold
in sheets containing a dozen, the price of the sheet
being of course threepence. The stamp bears the
impress:—" Caledonian Railway. No. (ewe) 2586.
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 cog of
postage. Besides
residents on the line, gentlemen in business wha may de-
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 w%iil not be slow in following the Caledonian in
the adoption of this simple and convenient plan.—tiro a.
man,

PURCHASE OF ENGLISH THOROUGHBREDS FOR.
THE KING OF ITAIS.—The King Of Italy has just pur-
chased of Mr M. Webster of Allerston, near Pickering,
Yorkshire, his celebrated entire horse Canute, and of Mr
Hudson, of Brighton, his equally renowned horse General
Williams. The pair are famous for their victories at the
various agricultural shows. The exact prices have Lot
transpired, but ferry long ii cures have been obtalatd.