The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
I7s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is
nearly 2-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices fromllamburg the price of gold is 1251 per mark
and the abort exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterling.
standard gold at the English Mirt,price is, therefore, about
3-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 160 to 166 k per cent., and the premium on
gold is 'about 513 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

KILLED AT A RAILWAY STATION.—Mr. Black•
burn, the coroner for Leeds, held an inquest in that town,
on Friday last, on the body of Mr. Samuel Sagar, aged 13:
The deceased, who was a partner in the firm of Messrs.
Sager and Walker, stuff merchants, Bradford, had been on
business to Knaresborough and Jiarrogate on Monday last.
On the evening of that day he had returned as far as Leeds,
and he went to the Holbeck station of the Great Northern
Railway. It appeared that he left his luggage outside the
refreshment-room door, and a train came up for Wakefield
five minutes before that by which he intended to travel to
Bradford. As that train stopped he was seen running from
the refreshment room, and ho stepped on to the down
line, as if meaning to get to the train on the &her rails. As
he got upon the down line a train came up from Bradford'
and he was knocked down. The six wheels on o.ne side of
the engine and tender all passed over his legs, and he was
removed in a shocking state to the Leeds intim:loY. On
n
Tueslay one of his legs was amputated, and on Thursda
he died. It appears that the train was not due forfive
fi
minutes ; and after the accident he stated to bis m
to see that
other And
friends that he was hastening across the line
his luggage was not sent off by the train then t his luggage
in. the station.
At the moment he had quite forgotten tha
was not on the up platform. it was proved at the inquest
that the train from Bradford went very, slowly into the
station, and the driver bad whistled as 111110. As Mr.
Sagar was making his way across the platform, Edward
Moore, the ticket collector, and others called out to him, 1
but he regarded not their warnings, and they state that
with such impetuosity that no cry
he was rushingOf this opinion was Mr. Mr.
could have stopped hira.
Booth Swan, a medical student, who was on his way to
Laister Dyke, but woo on witne;singhthNe calamity attended
of uipperbohne, was another witness of the
Mr. Sager to the infirmary. Mr. Joseph ealham, a ,
-ommer-
the jury re-
turned and
to blame.
eifautalltoraccvteririx!ernce, and be gave evidence to the same effect
aoi fi
wiiy "Accidental
company
wereD eat Death,"
Mr. Swan. After a full and patient inquiry the as
Coroner
ROSES AT CRRISTILAS.—'the ,
stated
tahavtethrdeictr
' 'WO large
flower-
beds in the reserved garden of the Tuileries
several roses in fall bloom. Gardeners now contain
state
Phenomenon has not been witnessed since the beginning of
that such a
the present century,
A GENEROUS ACT OF s
his late visit to the IR R. PEEL.—During
smith
Robert Peel. happened to d southern part of this county, Sir
morning, in the latter end rive on a wet and cold Sunday
of Sheem. The of November, through the vil-
lageof the parish were poor villagers and other inhabitants.t
was celebrating in a hearingsmall
shed in
whicht
ethte."Arisshthperrels
actually no
chapel, all Were kneettmheons there wet and miry
road, the heavy rain pourinc, down on their bare heads.
Immediately on his return to Dublin Sir Robert fcrwarded
£5O to the bishop, expressing at the same time a hope that
others connected with the locality might assist in getting
up a chapel in which the poor people might be shel
weathe r. tere
during Divine service from the inclemency of the d
As the noble Earl of Dunraven had already contracted for
the erection of a 123 W and beautiful Catholic church in
Sheem, the gift of our Chief Secretarycould not, of course
be accepted ; but the g enuine goodd nature which
promptedthis
the offering is not less appreciate by the Catholics of
county.—Tralee Chronicle.
The Courtier de Nice states that great alarm was
caused at Grasse (Vat) three nights since by the fall of two
old houses near the Place des Aires. One of the houses
ted and there were only two persons in the
wag unoccup y
tailor named Fagnaire, aged 59, and his mother,
other, a tat
With great difficulty thd man was soon extri-
aged PO. •
,
the ruins,
but he was so much injured by his
sated from
fall from the fourth floor that he died almost immediately
afterwards. Had the poor fellow remained in hie bed, he
might have escaped unhurt, for the part of the floor
on
was
found his bed stood did not fall. The woman's body
found during the day, but life had long been extinct.