The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mile premium
and the short exchange on London is 25.22 per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 1-1 th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4P5i per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.6 per £1 sterling.
standard gold at the English 51irt price is, therefore, rather
more than 3-h the per cent. dearer in London than in Ham-
burg

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 1.8 to 129 per cent., and the pre-
mium on gol lis 161 to 17 per cent. At these rates there is
a profit on the_importation of gold from the United States.

NECK DEUS INTERSIT.—The American War is
now virtually over, and we can only ask why it was not
put a s'op to sooner. The Senate has stepped in at last, and
effectually finished the business by a simple enactment.
All the Confederates were to lay down their arms in sixty
days, and all who did not were to b 3 hang,- das rebels. The
Feder .1 Government has but to carry out this law, and
there is an end of the struggle. How very odd that nobody
thougkt of this earlier I However, never too late to mend
the Union, even with a rope.—Punch.
IHE WINDHAM CASE —This morning this case
was mentioned in the L ,rds Justices Court. Yesterday an
interim injunction was granted, on tt.e application of Mr.
Aspinwall, restraining Mrs. Windham disposing of her
interest in the Windham estates. This morning their
lordships directed the proceedings to remain in statu quo
until atter toe examination of Mrs. Windham, which was
to take place before their lordships the first week in Nov.
Colonel Sir Henry Hay, lock, and Captain Petrie,
of the English army, have been authorised by the Minister
of War to visit the infantry • nd cavalry barracks of the
army of Paris, and also the shooting school at Vincennes.

The Board of Trade tables for the past month
show the total declared value of our exportations to have
been £0,769,441, which is 51 per cent, less 'lan in the cor-
responding month of last year, but ne,..rly 6 per cent. more
than in June, 1860.

The telegram from NPw York, announcing that
the Kangaroo had sailed wirh a further remittance of
£210,000 for this country, that the rate of exchange has ad-
vanced to 131 t, and that gold is at 19 premium, was not
received yesterday until after official hours. At the pre-
sent premium on gold, assuming the current expenditure to
be at the rate of £160,000,000 per annum, the authority ob-
t ,ined by Mr. Chase for an addit onal issue of £30,000,000
of notes will just suffice to make up the loss sustained by
the depreciation of the ourrency, since an expenditure of
160 millions with specie at par will be raised to 190 mil-
lions at the existing quotation.

Advices from Vienna announce the betrothal at
Zurich of the Archduke Charles Louis with the Princess
Maria Annunciada of the Two :Sicilies, sister of Francis 11.

We are requested to state that Mr. F. Doulton,
M.P. for Lambeth, has joined the direction of the London
and Middlesex Bank,

At a meeting yesterday of the Australian Agri-
cultural Company, the directors' report vas adopted. The
payment of a dividend was not recommended on this occa-
sion.

RIGHTLY SERVED.---An M.P., of Very foreign
aspact, taking a cab, Avti, mistaken, having also a Dun.
dreary accent, for a stranger and alien. Cabby was gener- i
ously tendered 2s. for a ls. ride, and immediately saw his I
opportunity. " Hullo, Mussoo ; what's this for ?" " Zet
is for you," answered the gentleman, in broken English.
"Five shillings is the fare—a crown," was the cabby's
reply. "Ah I zo much ? well, zen, give me ze money
back." It was handed back unsuspectingly, and the gen-
tleman taking Is. from his pocket handed it to the cabman,
with the remark, in plain vernacular enough "
There, you a
remark that
blackguard, there is Is., your proper fare"— ,
so overwheln.ed poor Jehu that when the
gentleman had
ascended the steps he was visiting, the last thing he saw,
as he entered the door, Cabby, still standing, too petrified
to speak, in the position he was in when he,
received the
fatal shilling.
GREAT FIRE AT THE GOSWELL ROAD Dis-
TILLERN.—The most extensive conflagration that
dhaas
occurred in the parish of Clerkenwell, hap ened yesterday
morning about two o'clock, and in a very brief space of
laid in ruins propertyvalued at several thousand
par distillery
ling. The scene of the fire was the Goswell .ro
edway
and
arid chemical works, the property of Meadsr • Mnds ster-
A number of
Co, situate in Owen's-row, Goswall- rota
the New River
engine, having arrived, the
mains
s 0
the supply of
Company were drawn, but unfortunatelyany
engines. The bri-
gade was insufficient to feed
so
manner, but it took them
gade worked in a most admirablecould get the fire under. The
several hours before theY
enveloped-in obscurity. Fortunately
origin of the fire is
thel Sun Fire-office,
the firm was insured
gold
bought by the Bank to-day
was £.50,000, making The amount oa f
king
£486,000 since last Wednes-
day. The Hibernian, from Quebec, has brought
X 20,000.
The Kangaroo sailed from New York for
England 00 the 19th inst. with £209,000. At the
is inquiry
at there no for gold for .
(Dome
he continenta,
slight adverse movement in t .
exportation,
to
but a
would probably cause
exchanges
abroad to be renewed. remittances
The limited anrJunt of Mexican dollars brought
1 i sposed
by the West India packet Seine has been d
Advance of id.
of at 611 d. per oz., showing an