The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.276 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of &:
17 s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.i.r that gold is
about 6-10ths per cent. dealer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 42.5 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6} per £1 sterling.
-tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 142} per cent., and the premium on
golu is 29 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the
importation of gold from the United States.

THE FUNERAL of the late Mr. Charles Robert
Cockerel), late President of the Royal Academy, and archi-
tect of the Bank of England, will take place at St. Paul's
Cathedral onNThursday:next. There will be a full choral
service on the occasion at 12 p.m. Mr. Cockerell was for
some years architect at St. Paul's. With the consent of
the Dean and Chapter, Mr. Ilaward, of Old Quebec-street,
has made arrangements for a full and impressive cere-
monial.

A curious incident occurred at Potsdam, at the

time of the visit of the members of the Statistical
Congress. Among the persons who were walking in the
gardens of the Palace of Sans-Souci was a Prussian officer,
who entered into conversation with an English savant. The
latter, after a time, could not avoid expressing his surprise
at finding a Prussian officer speak English so well. The
officer replied that there was nothing astonishing in that
fact, as his wife and his mother-in-law were both English.
" Might I venture to inquire the name of your mother-in-
law ?" said the English savant. " Queen Victoria," re-
plied the officer, who was no other than the Crown Prince
of Prussia.

Loss OF THREE LIVES IN THE MERSEY.—On
Saturday morning, about half-past ten o'clock,
whilst the Isle of Man steamer Graefell was proceeding
from her auchorage in the Gouge to the north landing stage
she came into collision and sunk the flat Mary Agnes almost
immediately. Owing to the watchfulness and gallantry of
a boat's crew of the ironclad Warrior, Captain Barlow and
his crew were saved; but unfortunately, Mrs. Barlow, the
wife of the captain, her child, and a Miss Macquiness, were
drowned. Much indignation—and very just indignation too
—has been caused by the evident recklessness and stupidity
of those in charge of the Graefell, who after the collision
exhibited only a lazy attempt to save those in the water ;
indeed so little heed did Captain Kerrnode and the crew of
the Graefell take of this catastrophe that the steamer went
to sea, her captain exhibiting a rare callousness as to the
fate of those on board the flat.

DESCENT INTO A MINE EY LADIES.—On Friday
last a large party of ladies and gentlemen, at pre-
sent the guests of Sir William Call, Bart., at Wbiteford-
park, near Callington, visited, in company with Sir William
and Lady Call, the New Wheal Maria mine. So vivid an
interest did they manifest in the undertaking, that, equip-
ping themselves in garments provided for the occasion, the
most enterprising of them descended into the bowels of the
earth, consisting of Lady Call and Mrs. Jones, of Pantaglas;
Messrs. Boscawen, Somerset, Collins, Uniacke, and Hasler&
They were lustily cheered on making their reappearance on
terra firma, and the courage and intrepidity displayed by
those ladies will long be the theme of enthusiastic admira-
tion among the miners of Weal Maria.--Plymouth Western.
News.

HORACE VERNET AND ARY SCHEFFER PROMOTED
TO THE LOUVRE.—From the Luxembourg Gallery of Mo-
dern Art the works of Horace Vernet and Ary Scheffer
are now being removed; the decease of both painters
having rendered their •works admissible to the Louvre,
where their finest productions in the hands of the French
Govtrurlieut are to be placed.