The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-30 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 2,5.15 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £,
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.u.s that gold is
nearly 2-Itths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.

By advice from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mart
and the short exchange on London is 13.4] per £1
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at
about the same price in London and Hamburg.

lite qourre of exchange at New York on London for bills nt
60 days' sight is ICB to IC9 per cent. At these rates there
is no profit on the importation of go.d from the United
States.

THE INSURANCE FRAUDS BY A PHYSIC/AN.—
Thompson Whalley, M.D., physician and surgeon,
of Mirfield, was again brought before the Dewsbury magi-
strates yesterday, charged with obtaining a security from
the British Prudential Assurance Company, to wit a policy
for £33 65., on the life of Law Walker, of Mirfield, labourer.
The case was similar to the one heard on the previous day,
with the exception that the person assured is still alive. In
the medical report Walker was described as being healthy,
while the fact was that Walker had for years been suffering
from abscess of the spine, and had been discharged from the
infirmary as incurable. Ho had also within a week or two
of the time the policy was effected been a recipient of relief
from the Dewsbury Board of Guardians. Walker swore
in court that he knew nothing whatever of the policy
upon his life having been effected, and had not signed the
declaration produced, but had heard his wife say she knew
something about it. The Bench decided to commit the
prisoner for trial at the Leeds spring assizes, and Mr.
Allsop, the solicitor for the prosecution, then proposed to
go into a charge of fraud upon the British Nation Com-
pany to the amount of £l,OOO, by a policy on the life of
Mrs. Bottomley, of Huddersfield, who is still living ; but
the*Bench declined to go into the ease, as they considered
the two charges upon which the prisoner had been com-
mitted were sufficient. Bail was accepte d for the pri-
soner's appearance, himself in £l,OOO, and two sureties
in £soo.—Manchester Courier.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 30.—The North German
Lloyd's Company's steam ship America, from New York
on the 18th, has arrived. She brings 43 bags of mails for
London ; 120 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen;
$170,000 for France and $5OO for Bremen. The America
passed the Germania on the 19th, from New York on the
18th, with numerous passengers who had secured berths
in America, but who cancelled their engagements ou hear-
ing that cholera existed at Southampton. The steamer
Arago, which was to sail on the 25th from New York, is
appointed to call at Falmouth instead of Southampton, on
account of the reported cholera at the latter place.

BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—A memorial has been pre-
sented to the Board of Directors of this company by a
deputation of the season ticket-holders on the line, repre-
senting the inconvenience and loss to which they are sub-
jected by the frequent irregularities in the arrival and de-
parture of the trains, the use of engines of defective power
the insufficient number of porters at the stations, and the
bad condition of the carriages. The memorialists also com-
plain that an irregular excursion traffic is permitted to throw
the regular advertised service into total disorganisation.
TEE COMING ENVOY.—An Englishman on board
a steamer on one of the American lakes conversing
with a Yankee fellow-passenger on the merits of the Ame-
rican orators said he had been advised to see Mr. Clay, as
perhaps the most eminent of all. "No,' said his companion,
"you should hear in preference Caleb Cushing." " Why
so ?" asked our friend. " Sir, there is no orator in our
country who mounts higher and stom there longer, and
slides down easier than Caleb Cushing." The Englishman,
tickled with the remark, inquired of the captain of the
steamer who his informant might be, and was delighted to
learn that he was no other than Calel Cushing himself.

POISONOUS GAS.—At the Liverpool - Coroner's
Court yesterday an inquiry was .eld touching the
deaths of the three men who were suffocated within a few
days of each other while acting as shipieepers on board the
ship Armadale lying in the Huskisson Dock. Dr. Trench,
medical officer of health, and Mr. Ayrtcn gave evidence to
the effect that death bad been causad ly the inhalation of
carbonic acid gas, which, in consequence of the prevailing
high winds, had been forced back into a° deckhouse where
the men slept, and whero they had kindled fires. The jury
returned a verdict, " The death resulted from suffocation
caused by defective ventilation."

The London Branch of the Sotthern Insurance
Company of Melbourne now underwrite insurances
from all parts of Australia and New Zealand to all
parts of the world, the business of that branch
having hitherto been confined to outward bound
vessels only.
The sum of £42,000 in bar golf was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday for the Continent.
The International Contract Company, Limited,
has declared an interim dividend, 'or the half year
ending the 30th of September, at he rate of 10 per
cent. per annum.