The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

Course of the Exclia,nge—Yesterday.

9msterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 19? 11 0
Antwerp..
Brussels — 25 621 '25 67f
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 S
Paris .. Short. 25 25 25 30
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 119 1191
Vienna
12 37 12 43
_ .

Trieste

12 40 12 50

Petersburgli
Berlin
Madrid OOO .••

Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 82} 25 871
Milan — 25 821 25 87;
Genoa — 25 821 25 871
Naples - 25 821 25 871
Palermo .. 25 85 25 9G
Messina .. — 25 85 25 93
Lisbon —52 a
Oporto...-
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3O 17
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) '''''' 0 55 22
South American Doublons 0 0 0

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE EARL AND COUNTESS
0/ CAWDOR.—A very alarming accident occurred to
the Earl and Countess of Cawdor on Thursday last, while
disporting on a lake in Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire.
The noble earl was driving the Countess of Cawdor on a
sledge, when the ice suddenly gave way at a considerable
distance from the shore, and both were immersed in the
water. Happily the catastrophe was observed by his lord-
ship's sons—both expert swimmers—his lordship's brother,
the Hon. Henry Campbell, Sir Robert Brownrigg, and
Mr. Dixon, his lordship's butler, to whom groat praise is
due. The earl and countess were both in the water for
some time, and when extricated her ladyship was in a state
of insensibility. The latest accounts state that the earl
and countess are recovering.
LONDON STREETS—At the in stance of Professor
Donaldson, who has been studying the street architecture
of new Paris, a committm of eminent architects has been
named to draft a petition to the Government, praying the
Queen's advisers to consider the whole subject of London
streets and communications, with a view to adopting a large
and general plan of improvement.
MR. HOLMAN HUNT is painting a picture repre-
senting the scene on London-bridge on the night of
the illumination in honour of the arrival of the Princess of
Wales. The work, which is not large, and will be exhi-
bited with other pictures of the artist, contains a host of
motley incidents, *4., a sweep carrying his brushes on his
shoulder, a volunteer protecting his sweetheart from contact
with the brushes, a man complaining to a policeman of the
loss of his watch, the official receiving the communication
without surprise. The thief of the watch has jumped
over the parapet of the bridge, and passed along the
cornice beyond it, in hopes of escape, but has been
noticed by a detective, who seizes the confederate of
the thief, to whom the rascal thinks himself handing the
watch, while he really deposits it in the detective's open
hand. There are old women and men, won)"
with
tn babies,
boys, girls, cabmen, soldiers, one or two foreignfer.,d other
a
;he bridge
and elements of such a crowd. Along the sides o
range the flaming censors and tripods, the tall lamps
of Denmark and the
d.auct
taller banners that flap slowly in the night breeze,
nablematic groups of
Raven. With these are display
et
of the distance that is
statues, and all retire into the he
countless crowd, and the
and are surmounted by tho Eleph
deepened with rust, raised by t
scent moon shining on the
with
blue sky of night,the decro Over all is the high, clear,
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