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

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2} 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
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.,,r that gold is
nearly 1-10th per cent, dearer in London than in Paris.
By advises fromllamburg the price of gold is 125 i per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling
standard gold at the English Mir t,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 162} to 163 per cent., and the premium on
gold is:about 18} 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 :—ln 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 uts.
doubtedly, not being seen 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 pilot° bo 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
size 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 houses, 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-
thorpe-street, heard a heavy fall by his side and received a
severe push. Upon turning 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 elf 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 71t. 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 Whitechapel. The fol.
lowing is the description as circulated by the police :
"Escaped from the House of Correction, Charles Laws
rance, aged 21, height 6ft, 31in., hair dark brown, eyes
hazel, dressed in the prison clothes."
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLOURS.—TWO Italians, 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 discovery pro-
poses an orange-coloured necktie, plum-coloured, coat,bo
violet trousers, and a green waistcoat I—Quite a Sam
Adonis I
CAPTURE OF AN EAGLE AT BRIGHTON.friOna
Thursday morning a large bird was
over Brighton in a southerly direction.
wilenedfibrs a num-
deseriedt
noticedyg
it was hovering over the church, and surround.
ber of rooks and seagulls, who seemed determi ed from their
noise to make his visit as uncomfortable as puosusible. Seve-
ral persons immediately started in pußrs.dit, and among
the ge Inn, who
the number Mr. Starley,
didn bird. After
succeded in capturing this sieledn on the beach to
passing over the town it
it
the westward of the coastguard station, where was very
sett.
off about half a mile in the
soon disturbed; it then flew
direction of Lancing, and when next seen was devouring
one of the gulls which had been following him ; thence he
shapd his courso towards the wide waters near the Salts
Farm. After creeping
along the side of the bank for some
i
distance, Mr. Starley succeeded
n
gatting;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 Albieilla
It measures in length 3 feet four inches, and from tips of
the wings 7 feet 11 inches, and weighs 10-1 lbs. Its general
colour is pale cinerious brown.