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

The Price of Gold.

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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 Engliiedatp3lpei..rnt priceis
that
175.104 d. per ounce for standard gold, t
nearly 2-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price ot gold is 425 i Per mark
and the short exchange on London Is 13.41 per XtesttuTlninitged
'tandard void at the English Afirkprice is, therefore, about.
3-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
60 days' sight is 106 to 1661 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 51i per cent. At these rates there is S, "--•
any profit on the importation of gold from 1, arcely
States.
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SOF bOUTII WALES,—The The advance
o f
add of
in the price of iron has imparted a large
amount
the iron and coal
activity to the iron trade of South \Vales, and all the works
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of the district are in full
employ. Many
hundreds
which are about to
Nrk the scarcity of men
sual hands could be employed at both
works, and when the establishments
commence operations are in full
v
cannot fail to be more severelytter every felt than at present. Emi-
gration continues, and
a
pay-day at the larger
works it has become quite an ordinary matter for 30 or 40
skilled hands to leave, the
hi majority of them for the Northern
States. The reports of 6fh wages and the success of con-
flexions and frituds are
the great inducements which in-
dunce the men to leave their native couutry. It is gene-
rally believed that the increased demand for iron, the
scarcity of
workmen, and other circumstances will not only
keep:ptices
up,
but there is every likelihood that another rise
will take place. An increase in the supply or over-produc
-
tion i'. one particular point to be guarded against, or else
prices will
.certainly .go down as fast as they have gone up.
The following are the number of furnaces in blast and out
of blast, at the present time, at the South Wales Works :
of
Dowlais, in blast 13, out of blast 5; bbbvt, Vale, 2, out
blast 2 ; Victoria, 2, out of blast 2;• Sirhowy, 3, out of blast
2; Abery schen, 4, out of blast 2;
Beaufort, 6, out of blast
col
1 ; Varteg, 1 out of blast 1; Pontyp, 4 fall) in blast ;
Curnavon, 5, out of blast 2 ; Gol)nos, 1, out of blast 3;
Conterdawe, 1; out of blast, 1.
Cy farthfa, 11 (all) in blast'
There are also several works at a complete standstill.
The Courrier de Nice states that grqat alarm was
Grasse (Var) three nights since by the fall of two
caused at
old houses near the Place des Aires. One of the houses
was "occupied, and there were only two persons in the
other, a tailor named Pagnaire, aged SS, and his mother,
aged 90. With great difficulty the man was soon extri-
cated from the ruins, but he was so much injured by his
fall from the fourth floor that he died almost immediat IN'
afterwards. Had the poor fellow remained in his bed, eh
-e
might have escaped unhurt, for the part of the floor on
which his bed stood did not fall. The woman's body wus
found durinduringthe day, but life had long been extinct.