The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1. per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint pAce of £3
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 1-IGth per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
By advlces from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 stcrlin
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, there:bre, Rt
about the same price in London and Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is l(8 to ICB per cent. At these rates there
is no profit on the importation of go'd from the United
States.

Mr. Watkin, M.P., and Mr. Wall (Ceylon) had
an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, at
the Colonial-office, yesterday.
Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea arrive in town
to-day from their house in Norfolk.

Lord Londesborough returns to town to-morrow
from visiting in Norfolk. We hear that the noble lord has
taken his Excellency the Belgian Minister's residence in
Grosvenor-square for a term of years.
Sir Charles and Lady Rowley have left town for
their seat in Norfolk.

THE HOUSELESS POOR IN ST. PANCRAS.— On Tues-
day a meeting of the directors of the poor of St.
Pancras took place at the Vestry-hall, Camden-town, to
receive the report of a committee appointed in accordance
with the recommendation of Mr. Farnall, metropolitan
poor-law inspector, to consider the accommodation afforded
to wayfarers and destitute persons under the provisions of

the Ifouseless Poor Act. Mr. Churchwarden Lawford occu-

pied the chair. Mr. Churchwarden Robson brought up the
report, which stated that the present workhouse accom-
modation afforded nightly relief to 25 wayfarers-12 males
and 13 females. The number of admissions had been for
the half-year ending Lady-day, 1865—men, 1,611; women,
388 ; children, 193 ; total, 2,192. Half-year ending Michael-
mas—men, 2,016; women, 968; children, 381; total, 3,365.
For five weeks ending Nov. 4—men, 448 ; women, 310 ;
children, 126; total, 884, or an average per night of 25.25,
making together—men, 4,075 ; women, 1,666 ; children,
700 ; total, 6,441. The average number nightly during the
past five weeks had more than doubled the average of the
previous year. Between the 16th of October and 4th of
November 237 men and 18 women, or an average of 17 per
night, were refused admission on account of the ward being
full—the greatest number refused on any one night hav-
ing been 32, and the smallest number two. None had been
refused admission during the past week, as accommodation
had been found for them in other parts of the house, but
the number of regular inmates was daily increasing. Hav-
ing regard to the great increase, and probably still further
increase, of wayfarers during the coming winter, the com-
mittee considered the propriety of obtaining plans for the
erection of suitable wards, labour sheds, &c., to provide for
the reception of 100 men and 50 women, and therefore re-
commended, "That, with a view of providing proper wards,
labour yards, &c., for the rapidly increasing numbers of
wayfarers and other destitute persons, the directors be ad-
vised to authorise the special committee to confer with Mr.
Lockyer, surveyor, as to the erection of a building to adjoin
the front boundary wall of the workhouse, to accommodate
100 men and 50 women, to be in accordance with the re-
quirements of the liouseless Poor Act, with power to in-
struct Mr. Lockyer to draw up plans and specifications for
the erection of the same." Mr. Ross moved an amend-
ment "that the report be referred back to the committee, to
ascertain what temporary sort of building would best meet
the requirements ;" which was ultimately carried as a sub-
stantive resolution.

A VALUABLE PRIZE.—Some weeks since it was
announced that the ship
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of Good Hope, and had eaLnnavoifgatLediveto Soltrpo..
The Sir Ralph Abercrombie had encountered a heavy
gale, and had lost her rudder, and the crew, believ-
ing that she would founder, got on board the Martaban
which had borne up, and refused to return to the ship, as
they considered it hopeless. A crew of the Martaban then
volunteered to go to the ship, which they did, and were for-
tunate in getting the ship to St. Helena. The owners of the
Sir Ralph Abercrombie have offered the sal ors £5,000, the
value of the ship, for their services, but this they refuse as
inadequate to the risk. The prize they value at £70,000,
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unfortunatet o leavea
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and they contend they are entitled to £20,000. The ship has
been seized until the question of salvage is adjudicated.
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AN UNPREMEDITATED VOYAGE.—The butcher,
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articles in which they dealt for the screw-steamer City of
New York (which sailed from Liverpool yesterday)
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LOYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.--At the evening
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday
next—Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K.C.8., in the chair--
the following papers will be read •_l. " Overland Journey
from Rockhampton to Cape York, Australia," by Messrs.
F. and A. Jardine. 2. " Discovery of a Route between
Rockingham Bay and the Valley of Lagoons," by Mr. G. E.
Dalrymplo. 8. " Boat Voyage of Sixteen Hundred Miles
along the Coasts of Northern and Western Australia," by
Mr. J. P. Stow.

A fatal accident, caused by a foolish bravado,
occurred three evenings since at Tancarville, near
Havre. A number of persons were taking their
evening repast at a public•house, when one of them,
named Chion, a quarryman residing in the village,
declared, after some silly dispute about the capacity
of the human gullet, that he would swallow whole
a large piece of beef which he had before him. He
made the attempt, but the meat stuck fast in the
oesophagus, and in spite of all that could be done
hetied of suffocation a few minutes afterwards.