The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
Irs. 101cL per ounce for standard gold, it appe....r that gold is
nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices fronillamburg the price of gold is 4151 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling.
-'tandard gold at the English Mint.price is, therefore, about
1-10111 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1G21.t0 103 per cent., and the premium on
gold Is about isi per cent. At these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

PULOLO OR BALOLO, a curious annelidan, which
Mr. Hood thus describes in his notes of a cruise in
H.M.S. Fawn appearance this highly esteemed article
of food is like a white or sometimes a greenish worm, almost
transparent, about 12 to 18 inches in length, and full of
small eggs. At a certain time every year it makes its ap-
pearance in such prodigious numbers as to make the water
in the opening of the reef (from which they rise un-
doubtedly, not being seer_ to seaward), of quite a whitish
colour, and gelatinous. The natives are very fond of eat-
ing it raw, holding it as the Italians do maccaroni.
The Europeans also use it thus with pepper and salt,
its flavour resembling that of an oyster, but it
is generally preferred baked in a plantain leaf,
in which state it becomes quite hard, and is kept from
one season to another. If a single pulolo be placed upon a
sheet of paper, in a few hours nothing is to be seen but a
little dust, being in fact the eggs, which are each about the
siza of a pin-head. * Three days before its arrival, the
malio, or land-crabs (the Gegarcinus) are seen marching
down from the mountains to the sea in myriads. They
proceed in regiments straight a head, no obstacle diverting
them to the right or to the left. If a village is in their
route, they go through the houfrs, and the natives who
consider them a delicacy, have their dinners marching up
to their ovens of their own accord. So certain is the
sequence, that the people in the inland villages calculate on
being at the coast three days after the crabs to catch
pulolo."
DARING ESCAPE FROM PRISON. Yesterday
morning the police received information from the
prison authorities of Coldbath-fields House of Correction,
Clerkenwell, of the escape of one of the prisoners. On
Tuesday evening, at about five o'clock, a man, passing that
part of the House of Correction which looks towards Cal-
-1 thorpe-street, heard a heavy fall by his side and received a
severe push. Upon turaing round he found that a man had
dropped from the top of the prison wall, and was limping
away towards Myddelton-square. The passer-by went round
to the front of the prison and informed the authorities of what
he had seen. The governor of the prison at once had the
prison roll called, and it was then ascertained that a man
of the name of Charles Lawrence, aged 21, had escaped. It
was then found that the prisoner had been placed in one of
the cells at the top of the new buildings. By some means he
had obtained a stout piece of rope and a poker. The poker
he had bent in the shape of a hook, and had thrown it from
the window of his cell on to the wall. The hook fastened
itself on the coping, and the prisoner made the other end
of the rope fast in his cell. He then worked his way along
the rope to the wall, a distance of about 7ft. The prisoner
is described as a very powerful, violent man, and was un-
dergoing a sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, for
a violent assault on a constable at Whiteehapel. The fol•
lowing is the description as circulated by the police :
"Escaped from the House of Correction, Charles Law-
rance, aged 21, height sft, hair dark brown, eyes
hazel, dressed in the prison clothes.''
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLOURS.—Two M.
Ricco and Colonel Baratti, of Milan, claim the dis-
covery, but it appears that the partial knowledge will ne-
cessitate a fixed colour of costume, the style not very re-
cherche. The memorandum announcing the disove.rY_p_raot:
poses an orange-coloured necktie, plum-coloureasanme. 0
violet trousers, and a green waistcoat I—Quite a
Adonis I
CAPTURE OF AN EAGLE AT BiticatTos.—On
b
Thursday morning a large bird Was descried flying
over Brighton in a southerly direction. Wieen first noticed
surrounded by a
it was hovering over the church, and
num-
ber of reeks and seagulls, who seemedd
a etes poss
rmineible . d from
Seve-
their
noise to make his visit as uncomfortable
in
pursuit, and among
ral persons immediately started
the number Mr. Starley, of the Bridge Inn, who
succeded in capturing this h splendid bird. After
passing over the torn it settled on the beach to
the westward of the coaswtat guard station, where it was very
soon disturbed ; it then flew off about half a mile in the
direction of Lanciege _and when nest seen eves devouring
ono of the gulls which had been following him ; thence he
filleted his course towards the wide waters near the Salts
Farm. After creeping along the side of the bank for some
distance, Mr. Staley succeeded in getting:within gunshot,
when he managed to break one of its wings. What makes
it more surprising is that the large bone of the wing was
broken at 35 yards distance with small shot. It was then
no easy task to secure this formidable creature. After some
little time he managed to tie its legs and beak, and brought
it home alive, when it was soon killed. On examination
it proved to be the true cinerious eagle, Haliacetus Albicilla.
It measures in length 3 feet four inches, and from tips of
the wings 7 feet 11 inches, and weighs lbs. Its general
colour is pale cinerious brown.