The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-05 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 25.22 i per £1 sterling. Oa
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
178. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
at about the same price in London and Paris.
BY advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
8-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sitrlit is 162 t to 163 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about i 8 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.

A MOST CURIOUS INTENTION.—On the walls of
every temple in Egypt, from Meroe to Memphis,
the censer is depicted smoking before the presiding deity
of the place. On the walls of the tombs glow in bright
colours the preparations of spices and sweet incense. The
same censer was used by the Greek when Athens was in
its glory and pride. The Alhambra Palace of the Moors
has passed away, but the fragrant gums and insence altars
still exist. To render the air redolent with rich and flowery
smells required some alchemical initiation, and a mechani-
cal swing to jerk the fresh air into the censer, and the fra-
grant vapour out of it. All this, too, has now passed away.
By an invention of Please and Lubin we obtain our fragrant
vapour—our "sweet fumigation"—by the yard—literally
and truly by the yard measure I Messrs. Piesse and Lubin
extract all that is fragrant from the precious gums of the
East—from the Stacte, the Onycha, and the Bdellium—the
grosser dross, or nou-volatile parts, being cast away. This
pure sweet scent is then diffused into a natronated ribbon,
now called " Ribbon of Bruges," which, being rolled or
coiled up, is then stowed away into a little Etruscan vase,
and is ready for use. In that vase there is a gale of fra-
granee—there is condensed the breath of flowets from many
lands. Who is there having a shilling will not possess one?
FATAL ACCIDENT AT PADDINGTON.—Yesterday
morning, at half-past 10 o'clock, a fatal accident
occurred at the terminus of the Great Western Railway at
Paddington. It appears that near the Bishop's-ro,d canal-
bridge there is a branch from the Great Western Railway
main line, which is occupied by the Ruabon Coal Com-
pany as their depot. Close to it is the Bishop's-road sta-
tion of the Metropolitan Railway. The Ruabon branch or
siding is carried over arches, through the crown of which
the coals were shot from the trucks to a wooden stage,
resting on a cast-iron girder and beams of wood. From
this stage they were sacked and loaded into carts and wag-
gone. Previous to the formation of the underground rail-
way the road to the goods station of the Great Western
line cros
Railwaysing this road on a level, th passed along these arches,e
but, the Metropolitan
Great.seWalesontegrnsid
we
erthee
compelled to erect a new road on arches, el
old coal arches. To prevent the incline being too great, the
ti:e order
new
arch-s. About half-past
roadway underneath being several feet lower than that of
the old arches, it was decidedthatthewzur f y Under the old
arches should be brought
down three or
underee
t i
i
to make it on a
level with the roadway
10
o'clock yesterday morning
several men were at work clearing out the arth and con
crete upon which the foundation arch and stage rested.
of the
A long coal train had arrived,
n from he trucks through
Company, and the coal was throw
consigned to the Ruabon
the crown of the arch on to the st tge. While this was be-
ing done the men below were startled by a cracking noise,
,
but before they could mope the stage fell, wit between 30
and 40 tons of coal upon it, and buried the four men. A
large number of labourers were immediately set to work to
extricate the men. One, named James Peters,
a railway
Downes,
labourer, was taken out alive. The others, Thos.
a carter, Stephen Langston, and John Stafford,labourers,
were dead. At the time the accident occurred a cart which
belonged to Downes was being laden with rubbish. The
cart itself was under the old arch, while the horse was under
the new one. A portion of the mass of coal falling upon the
cart, caused it to fall back, and sent the shafts up, and the
horse, which plunged violently, was with some difficulty
released. Peters was saved from an immediate death in a
singular manner. He was at work shovelling up the old
brickwork and concrete, when he was knocked against the
side of the arch by a heavy blow on the chest. Before he
could recover himself a beans of wood fell across his shoul-
ders, the coals embedding the whole of his body up to his
chin. H a injuries were so great that he was at once con-
veyed to St. Mary's Hospital. The bodies of the deceased,
who are all married men with families, lie there awaiting
the inquest.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
ciosio, ,
Share tisilwave• Paid. Price. Business dont
100 Atlantic &St Lawrenc' all 65 67
.t), c Rom.,Baroda&.Cent Ino t , 1044 1054 104 544
I Gu. 5 per eclat.
20 Do. New -
204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron 41 44 5/ 51
10 Do. Preference ...... all '4 8
uffalo,Brant,&Godriell , 77 Fo
100 B
0
6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1372
100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 101 73 76
1.00 1)o. do. June 1,1,• • too 73 76
st Cloutta.m S. Eastn I. 100 1(3 105
st Cape Town & Dock Scr , 100 118 109
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. , 100 1155 '6l
stock East Indian. zu. sp. c. for 1054 1164 1061
20 Do. do. t Ext.... 5 1 Ili)
20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 1 P
stock 'Grand Trunk of Canadh 1•.• 21 -2 214
100 Do. 6 per cent. P 3 et.. •• I , 73 75
100 Do. 2d Prgf. 6 per et.. all 63 65
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentt. all 32 31
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. al i 47 50
100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 32 34
100 Do. do. 1872.. all 32 34
stock Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.c 100 1044 1054 1051 1
20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 I i P
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 r
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim
Ofaranteed 5 per cent. too 103 105 1044
204 Gt. W. of Canada Sham, all 12/ 13 IS
20i Do. New 1R 71 7st
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 99 101
100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 92 `44
10 Indian Branch Limited 4 li 11p 34 1 1
stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 112 Ic3 103 24
stock Do. 4/ p. c. Extensioi 100 96 98
stock Dc. 4 d 0.... . 100 92 4
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - -
stock Nlelb.t um. !, F. 0. Bun ino - -
5o Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53
100 Do. 7 p.c. Mom. Bds. al, - -
20 Newllr unswick & Cand
Class A Capital Shan. all 3 5
20 Do. do. B Capital do. all 3 -
N.B.l.C'da6 pc lst pi bds 100 83 85
stol a IScinde .... •• • • ) (100 105 101 105
st c Do. Delhi
st Do. Du. .- .. -6
.4 ..: ' 100 It2} 1( 3! 1034
Do. do .... ..
•tiock I D. Indus. St. F 10...) -I'
Ut.'
tO Do. Punjaub
1(0 03 104
98 100
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT -41CU1tl11E,.
- ••',b,.np.e.Ja ita u.,
- 1877-84
- Do. 6p. c. Feb. its A ut!. 100 106 08 xd
- Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sent. 100 106 108
- Do. sp. c. Jan.&.July. 101 95 96
- Do. 5 Inscribed stock, 100 tt3 55
- • ape G. Hope, 6 p c. 18731 lon ,0 • .10 109
- Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114
- Do. 1890 10' 112 !14
- Do. Jan. & July, 1891..1 100 111 113
- Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 - -
-- N. fi.Gov. 6 p.c. it a.&J uly 100 114 105
- vo. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct., lot, - -
- N. S.W. 6ov. 5 p c.,1866i 100 100 101
- Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1870 10( 99} 100 i
- Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 110 994 4 i
- New Zealand 6p. cent., 100 103 111
- Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.,
- sterlin,, 1875 ' 101 1(6 107
- Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 ( 9 111
- b. Aus Gop.c.MTh.& up 100 ,109 111 191 10

sterlfivr, 1R75 -
Queensland Gov. 6p. a.
Aus Gbp.e.M7e.6z up..
Vic. Gov. 6 p.c..Ja.&J uly
Do. to An.dzOnt..

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100
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( 9 111
ilO9 111
107 109
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