The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Faris is about 4 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 23.35 per 41 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £5
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Pada.
By advices fromilamburg the price of gold is 423} per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per -.£l sterling.
standard goid at the English 31int price is, therefore, rather
more than 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in llam-
burg

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
00 days' sight is 174 to 175 per cent., and the premium ou
gold is about 591 per cent. At these rates there is profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.

THEATRE OF WAR IN SCHLESWIG.—Under this
head Mr. Wyld has published a fresh instalment
of his maps illustrating the progress of the war now raging
in Denmark. This last instalment leaves nothing to be de-
sired. The town of Duppel, backed by the island of Alsen,
is set forth with great distinctness, while the entrenchments
thrown up by the Danes and the positions occupied by the
allies are also made distinctly visible. This new map is an
indispensable companion to all who wish to follow intelli-
gently the newspaper accounts of the progress of the war.
TITLED AND UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY.—WhER
Louis XVI. ordained that no one should be pre-
sented at Versailles unless he could prove four hundred
years of "gentility," in other words, that his ancestors
bore arms More 140fi, many counts and marquises were re-
jected as unworthy, though many an untitled gentleman,
as old as Hampden of Hampden, left his tower or chateau,
and posted up to court to establish his right. Every gen-
tleman, on his pedigree being certified, was invited to join
the royal, hunt; and this privilege was entitled le droit de
mentor dans la earosse du _Rol. The plain squire, to whom
this right was allowed, was always held to bs really supe-
rior even to the count or marquis whose claim was rejected.
Were the same standard of gentility in vogue at St. James's,
many an old English squire and highland chieftain would
bear Away the palm of ancestry, while many a noble peer
would, Lis at a tournament, have to "ride the barriers."—
Once a Trseek •

Howell, a coawrroonger, who
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A DOUBLY. MIIRDEirgn.
-A fellow 6
w named
as
of manslaughter
in killing his wife, and sentenced to six
years' penal servitud', was yesterday brought before the
Bath magistrates, charged with the murder of a woman
named Susan Cleverley, with whom ho cohabited. The
inquest upon the body of deceased was held on the pre-
vious evening, and a verdict of "Wilful Murder" returned.
The
prisoner, it seems, had lived with deceased almost
from the time of the expiration of his previous sentence,
and the evidence showed that he had continuously treated
her in the most brutal manner. On Tuesday morning
last, between ono and two o'clock, the persons living in
. the same house, No. 3, Little Com-street, Bath, and also in
the adjoining houses, were awoke E 7 cries of "Murder,"
and by noises as of a person jumping upon some substance.
This was the brute jumping upon the body of the deceased.
The neighbours, upon rushing to the room, found the
woman upon the floor bleeding profusely from the face,
and the prisoner, in reply to their questions, admitted that
he had inflicted the injuries. A policeman was called us,
n,
but the unhappy woman refused to give him into
tody, saying that if she did so he would be sure to kill
her afterwards. The brutal rascal would not touch her hi
presence of the policeman, but as soon as he had lenwrhano
about the house with a poker seeking his paramour' who he
had sought refuge in a fellow lodger's room,arsw lug
her. The
would kill her and any one who harboureddanday
un-
happy woman died from the injuries
on
nie medical evidence
Her body was frightfully bruised, anci the
b injury to the brain
clearly showed that death was cause
neyiris been committed
resulting from the prisoner's blows.
for wilful murder. "
—nL D PAnn."—James Parr
A DESCENDANT OF t attended
died last week in St. Helen's, dying a g arre
as an act of charity
by
philanthropic surgeon. James
todrinking, poetry, and painting.
was said to be given
OF THE IiOYAL oCCIETY 141Tjg
THE DINNER
CLANS will take place en 9 lath of March,