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

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about i 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 Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6} per .£1 sterling.
standard 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 1466 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
merits, the originality, and the excellent promise of tha
work, remains the first and last work of its gifted author,.
Mrs. Edmund Jenings, of Hawkhurst, Kent. The hand
is cold which wrote it, says the Athemeum, 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-house.
returned the author's manuscript, unaccepted; but after
the first edition, put forth by another house, had been
favourably received by the public, the house which had de-
clined the first, published the second edition.
FRENCH IDEAS OF ENGLISH HIGH LIFE!--Itt
" Aurora Floyd," which everybody just now is
running after in Paris—Mr. Mellish (otherwise repro.
seated as a perfect gentleman) gobbles his dinner like
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 his
mouth being perfectly full all the time. This is received
with roars of laughter, and is held to be a correct delinea-
tion of English manners ! Mrs. Powell, the ex-governess,
(like another Tamaroo I vide " Martin Chuzzlewit")
always wears a bonnet, even at 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
THE 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 300 feet further sea-
wards; and it is understood that the directors 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. The projected movement
would necessitate a very large outlay, „IA in order to repay
the expenditure a suggestion has been thrown out that a
penny toll should be levied upon the jetty, but such a nro-
posel would doubtless give rise to Lunch dissatisfaction..-,
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South, Easton Gazette.
TEE ALDERMANIC GoIIN .—B esides the formal
announcement of Mr. Andrew Lusk as a candidate for the
aldermanie gown of Aldgate Ward, vacant by the death of
Mr. John Humphrey, the names of Mr. Sheriff Nissen and
been mentioned as probable can-
Mr. Charles Capper have
didates for that honour.

FATAL SACRIFICE. —Apropos of "outing out the
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poetry," BO much dreaded by poetic dramatists, I
may tell a story of an author, now deceased. He was a
regular writer for the theatres, but had not yet ventured on
such high
flights as tragedy, One day he said
.to his
manager, fin going to say something—l know you'll
laugh, but I don't care. Well, I've written a tragedy,.
which I should like you to see." He was asked to send it ;
did so ; and thus the story proceeds in his OWIL words •
Well, sir, a few days afterwards I got this note from him
My dear —, Of all the preposterous things I ever read,
your tragedy is the most stupendous. But come and dine
with me to-morrow at six.' Just like him : wounds your
feelings in the tenderest point, and then tries to wipe it out
with the dirty bribe of a dinner. However, I went. He
told me to cut out all the poetry, and send it to Astley's.
I did ; and it ran a hundred nights. So you see what a piece
it must have been.”--" Cornhill _Magazine" jorOctober,iust
published.
A LUNAR RAINBOW.—At eight o'clock on Sun-
day evening week a Forfectly-formed lunar rainbow
was visible over the town of Sligo, and continued in view
for nearly an hour. Shortly before twelve o'elock it rained
heavily, with a strong breeze from N.W., and during tho
night it blew a hurricane, which continued until six o'clock
on Monday morning, after whi-211 rain set in, and with a
slight intermission continued until Tuesday afternoon. At
nine o'clock on that night another lunar rainbow was
visible, forming half a circle, and storm and rain lasted
through the night. Wednesday morning, at six o'clock,
the sun shone out, and the day was fine until half-past
three o'clock, when it again commenced to rain which coil-
tinuod for two hours, after whicl4 the enhipfr stltit 011