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. 30.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
CARDIFF, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Octwria,
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.

HOLYHEAD, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—AiTived—A.returnia,
from Rio Janeiro.

LoNnoNnunnr, 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 Parts is about 1 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.221 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Li
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-11ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
GO days' sight is 109 to 109 per cent. At these rates there is
no profit on the importation of go'd fr.= the United States.
By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per marl
and the short exchange on London is 13.71 per £1 sttrlin .
Standard gold at the English Hint prioe is, there- re, about
3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
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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 Dr. 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.—Trabner's Oriental and
American Literary Record.

" 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, ttll leave for Warsaw. The
Government sends to the localities moveatle columns
which arrest many individual; but have not yet been able
to secure a single guilty person."

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ALLEGED MURDER AT WOOLVirICM—An inquest
was held yesterday at Woolwich, before Mr. Carttar,
on the body of Wm Courderoy, aged 48, 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 same 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 £8 or £9 on him ;
but according to his wife's statement ho could not have had
more than 30s. When the body was found the deceased's
watch and money were gone. The watch, it was found, had
been pledged by the mate, who had made contradictory
statements as to where he and the deceased were during the
four or five hours preceding one o'clock. The deceased's
hat was found dry on shore, and marks of a blow 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., of Boston, ac-
knowledging the receipt of a volume of "Sermons on Mr.
Lincoln's Death," says :—" I feel much happier now than
I did a year ago, for your great war was a great burden on
my spirit. I think all men should feel thankful to God
that it is ended, and that the main cause of it is ended
with it. Henceforth you are a free people, and a great
future is opening to you."
The Scotsman says :—Mr. Henry James Moncreiff
is likely to be appointed an advocate-depute, a vacancy
having occurred by the appointment of Mr. Adam Gifford,
late senior depute, to the Sheriffship of Orkney and Shet-
land.

CRYSTAL PALACE.— ONE SHILLING DAY, Tues-
day, Aug. 29.—Admissions on payment, 28,710 ; ditto by
season tickets, 3,762—t0tal visitors, 32,472.