The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
PAU'S, Oct. 6.

The Patrie of this evening says :

" We have reasons to believe that Prince Czar.
torisky is taking formal steps, in the name of the
National Polish Government, ,to obtain from the
Cabinets of London and Paris the recognition of
Poland as a belligerent nation."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.:-This Days

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
THE CESAREWITCH•
15 to 2 agst Lioness (taken)
8 to 1 agst Drummer Boy (taken)
11 to 1 agst Limosina (taken)
15 to 1 agst Blackdown (taken)
15 to 1 agst Umpire (taken)
25 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken)
25 to 1 agst Fantail (taken)
25 to 1 agst Buckenham (taken)
40 to 1 agst Romanoff (taken)
40 to 1 agst Emblem (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
12 to 1 agst Catch'-em-alive (taken)
16" to 1 agat Birdhill (taken)
16 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Limosina (taken freely)
33 to 1 agat Cairucastle (taken)

LONDON GAZETTE.---This. Evetung.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 28.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, now Attaches at the undermentioned
places, to be Third Secretaries in her Majesty's Diphanatiq
Service :
The Honourable Edmund John Monson, Hanover,
Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, Stuttzardt.
Itobert Henry Hildyard, Esq., Paris.
Charles Calvert Eden, Esq., Lisbon.
George Francis Birt Jenner, Esq., Athens.
OCTOBER 3,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Brun
Baden as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for her Majesty thq
Queen of Spain.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 6.
CHAPLAIN'S DEPARTMENT.—The Rev, W. Helps, Chap,
lain of the second Class, to be Chaplain of the First Class;
the Rev. W. R. Beach's Commission as Chaplain of the
Fourth Class, to bear date 29th December, 1859, instead of
2d February, 1861, as stated in Gazette of 15th October,
1861.

—„...
MILITARY STORE DEPARTILENT.—Deputy Assistant.;
Superintendent of Stores Philip Aikin La Breton, from
half-pay, to be Deputy Assistant-Superintendent of Stores,

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 191 11 19
Antwerp .-- 25 52} 25 67t
Brussels — 25 55 25 571
Hamburgh — 13 81 13 81
Paris .. Short. 25 20 25 30
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine -119 h
Vienna

Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin

11 35 11 42
36i 361

Madrid ... . • .
Cadiz

Leghorn
M Han
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon

25 621 2.5 671
25 62t 25 673
25 621 25 67i
25 65 25 70
25 66 25 70
25 65 25 70
52f 52i
c2t

-
Oporto — .5`,,, 62
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. £3 17 g
Mexican Dollars e .. 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doublons 0 0 0

FOURTH EDITION,

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 O'CLOCK.

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial ira.
portance in the Gazette :
Eli Wilde. druggist, Manchester
Joseph Varty, builder, Wigan
Michael M'Uarron, contractor, Liverpool
Stephen Cross, malster, Haybridge, Essex
George Collins, draper, Falmouth
William Lister, cotton broker, Leeds
John Lynn, spindle maker, Bury
William L. Thomas, engineer Hove, Sussex
William Woodward, carter, Middlesborough, York
C. 0. Flower, commission agent, Tower-street, City
Henry M. Harvey, commission agent, Trentham
Robert Catchpole, watchmaker, Harleston, Norfolk
Edward Hughes, corn dealer, Chelmsford
John Clark, gunsmith, King's Lynn
Richard Phillips, builder, Stoke, Devonshire
Jonathan Gill, draper, Bradford
Simon Edwards, grocer, Liverpool
Abraham Smith, grocer, Huntingdon
The Rev. R. W. L. Tollemache, Brixton
George J uffs, draper, Woburn, Bedfordshire
Henry Harrison, engraver, Birmingham
Asa Andrews, boot maker, Bristol
Lewis Jones, blacksmith, Brockmoor, Staffordshire
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
George W, White, shoe manufacturer, Chelsea

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Bigham and Co , warehousemen, Glasgow
Robert Taylor and Son, merchants, Aberdeen

CURIOUS CALCULATIONS.

The simple interest of one cent, at 6 per cent. per twang,
from the commencement of the Christian era to the t :lose I!
the present year 1863, would be but the trifling sun, of 11
dollars 17 cents and 8 mills ; but if the same principal., a_tor.
same rate and time, had been allowed to accumulates fbecur of
pound interest, it would require the enormous
84,840 billions of globes of solid gold, each equal torenuf:e
I gunny
earth
in magnitude, to pay the interest, and if the sum °7 eat imated
divided among the inhabitants of the earth,
,mild would
to be 1,000 millions, every man, womant.aP'oo. W ere alt
receive 84,840 golden worlds for an inber_tanct line, it would
these globes placed side by side in
take lightning itself, that can girdle floan
dto end. Atd,
of an eye, 73,000 years to travel frooe extremity while
if a Parrot gun were discharged
_light La travelling 3.32 000
a man was stationed at the other... of a cannon ball being
miles in a second ; the initial velodarY
in this case stip
B:eouond—he would see a g he
about 1,500 feet per second,
jan
solid moving throu h t
a direct
take in
th:osue.diritko
'mild not bear the porlt"tililnth74e
continue at the same rate;ea
atmosphere at 1,120 feet,in a.
the ball would reach h• te
in
if all these masses
after waiting 110,000 y
billions of years;
inionba,uttoofbceenturies. Again,
_, • one prodigious ball, h •
end of 1,000 millions
of gold were fused
and if the interest Were would reach out into space
c inn
continued
udeldr directions
otnhse
for its centre, it _
1,732 millions of miles,almost reaching the orbit ,of Her-
-1 ,732
it would entirely fill up the solar
and even encroach 500 • •
prareenusent century,
millions of miles on the do-
mainsvoid
of the between the planet Neptune, whof e orbit,
• ce of
at the (listen 2,8 .0 millions of miles from the sun, en-
circles
end of the
our whole system of worlds. The present system of
i
I figures s called the Arabic method, but it should be more
properly termed the Indian method, because it had its origin
among the llindoos of India, frem'whom the Arabs learned
it, and they in turn carried the art into Spain, where they
proctised it during their long occupation of that country.
The Publication of their astronomical tables, in the form of
almanacs, was the principal means of gradually spreading
it abroad among the surrounding ncions ; but so slow was
the progress that it was not generally established until
about the middle of the 16th century.—A etc York Evenin,
Post.