The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-08 00:00:00

HAY MARK2TS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4l2s 6d ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to 14s per load.
A fair demand.

CUMBERLAND..—Meagow hay, £3 3s to £4 15s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
Trade steady.
WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 12s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 fis to £1 14s per load.
Trade firm.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about per milk 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 appear that gold is
about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6} per £1 sterling.
standard 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 152 to 1534 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 31 per cent. At these rates there is profit on
the importation of gold from the United States.

The biddings for 40,00,000 rupees (X 400,000) in
bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of
England. The proportions allotted were-I'o Cal-
cutta, 22,00,000 rupees; to Bombay, 16,00,000 ru•
pees ; and to Madras, 2,00,000 rupees. The mini-
mum price declared was, as before, ls. llfd. per
rupee on Calcutta and Madras, and ls. 111 d. on
Bombay. The applications within the limits
amounted to 121 lacs. Tenders on Calcutta at
ls. Had. will receive about 14 per cent. ; on Bola-
bay at 2s. about 68 per cent.; on 111adras at
is. 11V., about 63 per cent.; and all above thew
prices in full.
THE FRENCH ZADRIEL'S PROPHECY (a month
too soon)—of the English Earthquake? Aliff. the
well-known Zadkiel of Paris, predicted that, on the 10th
of September, the earth would be subjected to some shoe k
of na►ure, something more modern, but not less terriblt),
than an earthquake. People quaked up to the dreade
day, but the earth was perfectly staid all the while, ar d
nothing having taken place, M. Alia merely suggests that
Nature changed her mind, and that she may yet put her
threat into execution.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE BOYS !—A French phymi.
cian, M. Gran, has found out the means of making a .11
medicine tasteless. The juvenile world will subscribe for
a monument.

DEATH OF THE PAINTER OF DEAD GAME.—Tt te
recent death of Mr. Duffield, the artist, it is said, was
caused by his blood having been completely poisoned by the
absorption into his system of the odour of dead gains,
which he was constantly painting.
M. GIRARDIN agreeably recalls to the mind of
the French their smoking the Arabs to death in their
caverns, and comparing this with the recent displays: Of
Russian "mildness" in Poland.

PRINCE ALFRED'S STUD—The General Steen'
Navigation Company's steam-ship Princess Royal, which
arrived at Granton from London on Monday mornbag•
brought eight horses, one of them an Arabian, two Stet-
"
land ponies, two carriages, and a pony phaeton, for the

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of Prince Alfred while in Edinburgh.—Scotsmatharited a
THE BRIGHTON CHESS CLUB has been Sri
room in the Pavilion for its future exploits.
to paint
ordered by
'IIIE PAINTER DELL' AQUA has heel:on
laPsoveleur states that
the Archduke Maximilian to proceed te31....' delegates.
cit'S ON THE
the scene of the preientation of the MI;
SUICIDES IN PARIS AND S
COASTS or FRANCE.—ThejOUrnal igo drowned every year
there are, on an average, 600 Per°o2l9o,ooo French seamen,
in Paris; and that from 80,006:i:ow last 30 years.
have perished by shipwrec,kvgl;s—ln advance of the
THE " BLACK BALL'
have been received, per telo-
Australian mail, advice_9v:ja Melbourne of the Western.
gram from Suez, of theairv'llowind, Southern Ocean, Pe-
-
Ocean, Donald M`XalLo
South ; andh
of
t o sailing from
gasus, and Queen °f
al.6° set the Hope) Royal Dane, Western
Melbourne ter C Brit- 11 'd, an -dent.
Ocean, trident.
Ocean, Golden Lao
a_,.. tb t ended lO.at Saturday 1,274 deaths were
In the wee,. n The average number of deaths in ten
in l'weeks (1853 62), •
,10° '
orrool"nclinc the 40th
;row chola:Y.l- , Week of 1851, and with a correction
with the omission of deaths
registered
for increoe of Mutation, becomes 1,159. Tho present, re-
turn chows an excesti of 115 above the estimated number.
There were 22 fatal cases of smallpox in the week, showing
a further decicaso on those of previous weeks. Scarlatina
still prevails much, A
and shows a tendency to increase; the
deaths from it rose to 154 last week. Five deaths from this
latter disease occurred in Kensington-town sub-district, S
iu Kentish-town, 9 in Islington, 9 in Limehouse, and 7 in
St. Peter, Walworth.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29 660 in. The reading de.
creased from 30.05 in on Sunday to 29.09 in on Thursday.
the mean temp, rature of the air in the week was 52 deg,
which is P 8 deg below the average of the same week in 43
years (as determained by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day
temperature was 63'2 deg on Wednesday. The lowest night
temperature was 35 deg on,the same day. The range of
temperature in the week, and also on that day, was there-
fore 28.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 4.7 deg. The mean
degree of humility of the air was 84, complete saturation
being represented by 100. On Saturday the humidity rose
to 96. The wind blew on six days from the outh west. The
rain measured was 0.78 m.