The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-28 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
'sightly dearer in London than in Paris.

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the first week of this month. The writer emigrated recently
from the neighbourho( d of Bolton; and it is remarkable
that till lately he has exhibited strong Union sentiments :
" I think the war will last for some time yet, for some of the
generals have not made all the money that they wish to
make, and you may be sure that tho war will not stop until
they have; for I wish you to understand that this has
turned into a money war, and not a Union or a slave war,
for they are all getting all that they can out of the Union,
and they will let the war gc on until they have got all
that they can. For I have been within five miles of Rich-
mond, and our General could and would have taken it in
a very short time if they had not ordered him ,back. And
I caa tell you that the soldiers will never fight under any
other general, for little Mac
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call him, is the ,best of them all. General Burnside has
left us, for I need net tell you how many men we have
lost since little Mac left us, for you will have seen it in
the papers. During the last fight that we had (a shell
fell within nine inches of my head, but did not burst.
I can tell you that we have had some pretty tall
fighting, take all in all, and such sport that you never did
see in all your life. We are now about 55 miles from
Washington, and about four miles from Fredericksburgh.
That is the last place that we were fighting in. We
marched over the river pretty fast, be we came back as
fast, and a large number left our army altogether. It is
very bard to stop with the army, when I see so many
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'go to the devil,' as they say when they go. And now
we have one half of the army on the look out for the
other, to see that they do not run away; but they go, for
for all that. For my part, 1 will stop until my time is out,
two causes. The first is, that I have a very good stand
in —; and the other and best one is, that I will let them
see that an Englishman will fight to the backbone, and
thou will not give over as long as he is alive. But me or
any other man fighting will not make the South come into
the Union, for we cannot do it ; they have too much room
for us to beat them.

MR. W. F. WINDIIAM.—A summons has been
obtained against Mr. W. F, Windham for using abusive
and threatening language to Mr. H. B, Sproul, the Great
Eastern Railway Company's station master at Thorpe.
FIRES.—This morning a fire broke out in the
house of Mrs. Richards, 5, Danvers-street, Chelsea.
Although the flames were confined to the apartment in
which they began, Mrs. Richards was burned to death,
and the house was much damaged by fire and water.
In the course of the night fires also took place in the pre-
mises of Messrs. Flockton, distillers, Plough-road, Rother-
hithe, and Mr. Gordon, haberdasher, 11 igh-street, Bow.
The former caused only trifling damage, but the latter
destroyed the stock in trade,