The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market -This Day.

Market opens very strong. Sales, 15,000 or
20,000 bales..

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Aug. 80.—Wind this clay at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
CARDIFF, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Octuvia,
from Nazaire.
OFF SCILLY, Aug. 28.—Arrived—Columbus, from New
York.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Aurora,
for Plymouth.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived—Euxine,
steamer, from Alexandria.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Norfolk,
for Melbourne. _
nal-HEAD, Aug. '20.:--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Arcturnis,
from Rio Janeiro.
LONDONDERRY, Aug. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Prince
Consort, from Callao.
BRISTOL, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Adelaide,
from Mazatlan.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 29.—Lady Douglas, from Jamaica; Har-
riet, from Pomeron.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Calypso, from Jamaica, for London.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1i per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.2211 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
The nourse of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 109 to 109 per cent. At these rates there is
no profit on the importation of go'd from the United States.
By advic:a from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per marl
and the short exchange on London is 13.7 i per £1 skein,,
standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefere, about
3-10 tbs per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.

It is announced that a call of £4 per share has
this day been made on the shares of Overend, Gur-
ney, and Company (Limited), payable on 22nd of
September next, at the banking house of Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Twells, and Company.
The Paris Savings Bank received during the fort-
night ending the 28th inst. deposits amounting to
616,749 fr., and reimbursed the sum of 647,623 fr.
The payments made into the Caisse de Retraites for
the aged during the same period formed a total of
77,483 fr.

DESTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES DURING THE AMERI-
CAN WAIL—The valuable Oriental library and collections
of Di. W. B. Hodgson, of Savannah, a distinguished
scholar and well known for his researches in African and
other languages, was destroyed during Sherman's march
through South Carolina. That of Mr. W. Gilmore Simms,
the novelist, near Charleston, consisting of nearly 11,000
volumes, shared the same fate.—Triiker's Oriental and
American Literary Record.

gc Fires," says a Warsaw letter, " continue.in
Poland. Up to the present time, 27 communes
have become a prey to the flames. It is evident that those
disasters are not the effect of chance, for almost every time
that they have occurred letters announcing the fact had
been previously circulated. The conflagrations always
commence in the Jews' quarter, and the houses of those
unfortunate persons are always the first to suffer. The in-
habitants, reduced to misery, all leave for Warsaw. The
Government sends to the localities moveaLle columns
which arrest many individuals, but have not yet been able
to secure a single guilty person."
ALLEGED MURDER AT WOOLWICH.--An inquest
was held yesterday at Woolwich, before Mr. Carttar,
on the body of Wm Courderoy, aged 43, captain of a sailing
vessel, and living at 21, Parish-street, Southwark. It ap-
peared that on Friday morning a boy named James Evans,
of 5, Rodney-street, Woolwich, seeing a fish in the Thames
(a common occurrence since the London sewage has been
diverted), was in the act of wading to get at it, when he
stumbled over the body of the deceased, who was last seen
alive near the spot at one o'clock the sane morning, in
company with two girls and a man, alleged to be George
Dickenson, of Queen's-court, Horselydown, the mate, who
had been employed by the deceased for three weeks, and
who, it seems, thought the deceased had a or £9 on him ;
but according to his wife's statement he couli not have had
more than 30s. When the body was found the deceased's
watch and money were gone. The watch, it Vas found, had
been pledged by the mate, who had made contradictory
statements as to where he and the deceased wire during the
four or five hours preceding one o'clock. The deceased's
hat was found dry on shore, and marks of a hlow were said
to be discernible on his temples. The coroner adjourned
the inquiry for a post-mortem examination to be made.
JOHN BRIGHT'S SPIRIT *UNBURDENED. Mr.
Bright, in a note to J. E. Fulton and Co:, 4f Boston, ac-
knowledging the receipt of a volume of " Sermons on Mr.
Lincoln's Death," says:—" I feel much hapAer now than
I did a year ago, for your great war was a nat burden on
my spirit. I think all men should feel thankful to God
that it is ended, and that the main causeof it is ended
with it. Hanceforth you are a free people, and a great
future is opening to you."
The Scotsman says:—Mr. Henry Jame; Moncreiff
, is likely to be appointed an advocate-depute a vacancy
having occurred by the appointment of Mr. A:am Gifford,
late senior depute, to the Sheriffship of Orkney and Shet-
land.

CRYSTAL PALACE.— ONE SHILLING ay, Tues-
day, Aug. 29.—Admissions on payment, 28171.; ditto by
season tickets, 3,762—t0tal visitors, 32,472.