The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-26 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mills 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. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.r that gold is
nearly 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 i per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mirt:price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 159} to 160 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 45y OJaper Dent.. At-these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation of gold, from the United
States.

Mr. MAGUIRE'S "LIFE„QF FATHER MATHEW"
; -
has proved a great success, and 11Iessrs. Longman and: Co.
have already exhausted netuly the whole of.the first edition.
THE PRINCE CONSORT'S TRIBUTE OF ADMIRA.
TION TO MENDELt3SOIIN I.—After the performance
of "Elijah" in London, Prince Albert wrote a kind of tes.
timonial in the libretto he had been using, and sent it to
Mendelssohn. It will be acknowledged as both curious and
characteristic :—" To the noble artist who, surrounded by
the Baal-service of false art, has been able, by genius and
study, loyally to maintain the service of true art, like
another Elias, and, after the noise of senseless note-trifling
(Thaegandel), to accustom our ears to the pure music of
imitative feeling and regular harmony—to the great master,
in thankful remembrance, ALBERT.—Buckingham Palace."
A SLIP OF THE TELEGRAM.—In M. Reuter's
telegrams from Paris, published in the London
morning papers of Friday, it is announced that "a curate"
has been elected deputy for Bordeaux. This will be news
to the Bordelaise. The name of the deputy in question is,
indeed, Cure; but this is all the relation he has with the
clerical profession. M. Cure was no official candidate, and
was returned under the auspices of M. Pietri, the Prefect
of the Gironde.

A HUMANE INSTITUTION.—The New York and
Boston Express Mail Line Railroad, via Hartford
and Springfield, have placed upon their road a set of cars
for soldiers' use only, The car contains 10 cots, suspended
by rubber bands, for those having broken limbs, &c., also
seat room for 30, with handsomely cushioned seats, several
easy chairs, a full set cf appliances to protect fractured or
broken limbs, a complete chest of medicines, bandages, lint,
iFc., a splendid copper urn and apparatus for making coffee.
a wash room, water closet, heaters,
&c.—in fact, everything
needed by a sick or wounded soldier is here placed at his
disposal. A steward and nurse accompany each oar, whose
duties are to minister to the wants of every soldier. One of
these cars will leave New York and Boston daily.--Boston

Paper.
n Westminster Abbey :and
e°l4ronuite-,
buses running
FABEs.—op.rTiehteorlsinoenethf
between
"Mother Birch's," having RAISING OF 031NIBUs
known been
Camden-town,
as
last few days, the General Omnibus
withdrawn within the
onibus
Company, and the other omnibus ar
yesterday raised the fares from 2d. to 3d. outside, to the
great annoyance of the numerous passengers on the rok t, no
notice having been given of the intended change beyond the
withdrawal of the board usually hanging outside the 'bus
marked " 2d. all the way." It is reported also to be the
intention to charge 6d. inside and 4d. outside on Sunday
evenings after 8 o'clock. So strong is public feeling ags inst
the change that already measures are being taken to place a
number of 'buses on the road at the old fares.
STEAMERS FOR THE BLOCKADE.—Last week
three Clyde steamers were reported as sold for the
purpose of being employed as blockade runners. These were
the Caledonia, well known on the Stranraer station, lately
running between Glasgow and Itothesay, which has been
fitted with new boilers and feathering floats, and now sails
well; the:saloon:steatner lona,the finest finished and swiftest
steameronthe Clyde,built this year for Messrs. D. Hutchie-
son and Co's West Highland line, and which plied during
the summer on the Glasgow and Ardrishaig route ; and
the saloon steamer Fairy, another of Messrs. D. Hutchie-
son and Co.'s West Highland line, which plied from Oban,
round Staffa and lona. The price obtained for the lona
was £20,000. The Fairy, it will be remembered, was this
season placed at the disposal of his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred on his visit to Oban during the tour round the Scot-
tish coast in her Majesty's ship Racoon. Like the lona, she
is a handsomely- fitted veasel,and on Saturday went down• the
river on a trial of speed, which was to regulate the sam to be
paid for her. There are, besides, two new steamers at pre-
sent fitting out for the same trade--.namely, the Nola, 780
tons, a sister to the City of Petersburg and Lerd Clyde,
which left the Clyde lately ; and the Arrow, 200 tons, a
sister to the Presto, Dare, and Will o' the Wisp, which have
sailed within the last four weeks. Should the demand con-
tinue at this rate there will soon be scarcely a swift steamer
left on the Clyde. The steamboat owners never before had
such a harvest, some of their steamers having been sold for
nearly double their original cost, and that after a season, 8
use.—Scotsman.
11 HISTORY OF THE VIOLIN" is the title of s work
written by Signor Regli, just published a Turin.
WoRLD.
THE OLDEST MARRIED COUPLE IN TR:o.
_y,
two
—There are living in Marulan, this I"
11 an
otivey
persons, husband and wife, aged respebedridden1 , but are
years. They are extremely feeble and
. he old man ar-
in possession of both sight and hearings.
consequently been
rived in the first fleet in 1788, and aSouth Wales,—Sydney
75 years in the colony of New
IN.S, W.) Empir
A LEARNED ECHO.
__/0 the course of last sum-
me distinction were induced to
mer, some strangersfroni
the report they
heard of an
visit Rothiemurelosi
"echo" remarkable for d•
the clear and bttuct nature of its
i
reverberations. On reaching the spot, whence the trial of
its power is u°
_riaily made, their guide put his hand to the
hand bawled •
mouth,
sides of his
tion in Gaelic, which was repeatedwith 'i-
-B„juta a prec
tor a
Sion that seemed beyond the xpectationiOf the party. One
ot, the gentlemen, by way of trying the strength ot his voice,
put his hands to the side of his mouth in the.saine manner
" the guide, and called out, " How far are we from home ?"
These words, much to the astonishment of their conductor,
were also repeated. 'then pooi Donald, with a simplicity
which brought 'a smile over itha ,vArty, said—" You may
think it strange, gentlemen, but this is the first time Lheard
the echo speak English. She must be well instructed."
As further proof of the increasing interest of
France in German art'and literature, the latest number of
the Roue des _Deux Mondes contains an article by. Charles
de Remusat, of the Institute, " Munich, I'Art par la Cri-
tique," and another by Emile Montegut, "The Philosophy
ot Gioethe's Wilhelm Meister.' "
THE PRISONER TOWNLEY.—Mr. MaCaulay, Q C.
Mr. Sergeant O'Brien, and Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, have
been retained fur the defence of the prisoner Townley, who
stands committed for the murder of Miss Good win.