The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

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Brecon
Richmond
Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 23
Newmarket First October 27

IRL
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Lincoln
Gloucester
Newmarket Houghton 24
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LeamingtonkWar.Hurat 22

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Springhill 2 1 Cork
Galway Hunt
Nenagh lO, 11 Tipperary

.TUNS.

Curragh 2B, 29, 30

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Curragh Bl 7, 8

OCTOBER.

Curragh --__
18, 19, 20
STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

NOVEMBER.
Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

The Price of Gold.

By advices fromliambur,g the price of gold is 426 per marl{
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 stcrlin-c.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills a
60 days' sight is about 200 per cent., and the premium on,
gold is about 62 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.17 a per £1 sterling. Oa
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of .53
17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than London.

THE MOST STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF THE SAY-
ING THAT THE PITH OF A LADY'S LETTER IS THE PosT-
SCRIPT :—"P.S.—You will see by my signature that I am

married."

The effective force of the Austrian troops
assembled on the frontier of Transylvania and the Buko-
wine amounts to 30,000 men. They occupy the whole ling
of the Carpathians.
A STEEPLECHASE BY MOONLIGHT.--DuNDALI,
May 16.—Last night, immediately after the clock
struck twelve, several officers of the gallant 4th Dragoon
Guards, stationed here, started off for Dawdalhill race..
course to witness a moonlight steeplechase of three miles,
worse of their midnight
which Lieut, Farquhar undertook to perform with his
favourite race mare Lady Annie. Lieut. Farquhar came in
unscathed, and had 15 minutes to spare, neither he nor his
faithful nag being much the
steeplechase. I understand thatchances were considered
so much against the gallant rider
othat several bets were
offered, by which he netted The race was an im-
promptu one, and arose at the mess table a few minuted
before it was undertaken.—Dublvi Evening mail.
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was held on Monday evening at York
on the body of a boy about 14 years of age, named Robert
Corbett, who had died on the previous night, His father
had gone to America two years ago from Clonmel, Ireland,
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was dressed in a fantastic style, and was so frightfully emu.
ciated that there was no wonder one of the witnesses de-
scribed it as a disgusting exhibition. His mother took hinx
round the country for the sake of a livelihood, though it
was stated that the poor boy himself was desirous of being
shown to an admixing public as one of the greatest wondere
of the world. Mr North, surgeon, who was called in about
two hours before the deceased's death, which he attributed
to a scrofulous disease, thought the public exhibition of tha
child was highly objectionable as regarded his health, but
he was not prepared to say that death was accelerated
thereby. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had
died of scrofula, and at their request the coroner severely
reprimanded the mother for her conduct, stating, however,
that as it had not been made out that her conduct had acce-
lerated her son's death, she had escaped a criminal verdict.
_Leeds Mercury.

The Echo de Veeone states that M. de Tonnens,
ex-King of Araucania and Patagonia, who is now
staying at Perigueux, has recently received letters
from his old kingdom assuring him that his return
is impatiently expected by the population, and that
he may rely on an enthusiastic reception if he will
return,