The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-30 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

Lo:Nnox, Sept. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 29.—Wind S R—Sailed—Cid,
screw steamer, for Bilboa.

NEWPORT, Sept. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Volunteer,
from Garrucha.

HOLYHEAD, Sept. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Fame,
from Quebec for Carnarvon; Gleneon, from Liverpool for
Quebec.

CLYDE, Sept. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—St. Georges
screw steamer, from Montreal.

KINGSTOWN, Sept. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Egilto,
from Sulina.

LOUGH FOYLE, Sept. 29.—Arrived—Nova Scotian,
screw steamer, from Quebec, and proceeded for Liver.
pool.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GHAVEsEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 30—Hertha, from Porto Plata; Rica, from
Rernosand ; Two Sarahe, from Havre; Confidence, from
St. Übes ; Dr. Chisciotti, from Girgenti ; Elide, from New
York ; Catharine Pemberton, from Fray Buetos ; Har-
mony, from Labrador.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Light of the Age, from London for Queens-
land.
Passed—Dundee, from London for Jamaica ; Elisabeth,
from Porto Plata for London; Mohawk, from Quebec for
London; Arica, Peruvian man-of-war, from the River for
me West.

Sailed—Nearfy all the outward bound.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mine 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. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appear
that gold is
about 3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Faris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i Per £1 sterling.
:A.andard 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 about 1461 per cent., and the premium on.
gold is 336 per cent. At these rates there is little, if any,
profit on the importation of gold from the United States,

" MY GOOD FOR NOTHING BROTHER," a novel
published in the spring, under the pseudonym of
Wycliffe Lane, with a success which was due to the real
ments, the originality, and the excellent promise of the
work, remains the first and last work of its gifted author,
Mrs. Edmund Jenings, of llawkhurst, Kent. The hand.
is cold which wrote it, says the Atianceton, and we have
one pure-minded, clear-headed, and high-principled author
the less, just too when writers of such quality are least to
be spared. One circumstance respecting Wycliffe Lane's
book deserves to be recorded. A leading publishing-houso
returned the author's manuscript, unaccepted ; but after
the first edition, put forth by another house, had been
favourably received by the public, the houso which had de-
clined the first, published. the second edition.
FRENCH IDEAS OF
ENGLISH Mall LIFE !—lll
" Aurora Floyd," Which everybody just now is
running after in Paris—Mr. Mellish (otherwise repre-
sented as a perfect gentleman) gobbles his dinner like a,
clown in a pantomime. The whole fun of one scene is that,
not one word of what ho utters, though the " action" is of
great interest,
is intelligible, owing to his hurry, and hie
mouth being
of perfectly full all the time. This is received.
with roa'ci of laughter, and is held to be a correct delinea-
tion English manners! Mrs. Powell, the ex-governess,
(like another Tamaroo vide " Martin Chuzzlowit")
always wears a bonnet, even nt dinner and in the drawing-
room ; and the hop feast in Kent takes place in the midst
of mountain scenery, where the peasantry are dressed in
Highland costume, and dance Scotch reels I
DIE JETTY AT MARGATE.—A project is stated to
be on foot for increasing the length of the jetty from
1,250 to 1,550 or 1,600 feet, by removing the present head.
and continuing the iron work about 3JO feet further sea-
wards; and it is understood that the directo•s of the Pier
and Harbour Company have availed themselves of the
presence in Margate of an eminent engineer, whose opinion.
has been taken upon the subject. rho projected movement
would necessitate a very largo outlay, and iu order to repay
the expenditure a suggestion has been thrown eut that a
penny toll should be levied upon the jetty, but such a Pro-
posal would doubtless give rise to much dissatisfaction.--
South Easton &azette.
The Correspondent of Hamburg recently an-
nounced that a Sonderbund had been formed at
Frankfort by a secret convention signed by the
Emperor of .Austria and the Kings of Bavaria,
Wurtemburg, Saxony, and Hanover, and the Duke
of Nassau, giving at the same the wording of tho
supposed compact. The Dresden Journal now
denies the truth of the statement so made,