The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-17 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation 01 gold at Paris is about 1 per mile pin., and
the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price 01 £3
17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
at about the same price in London and Paris.

PRINTING IN COLOURS.—The most interesting
improvement in modern wood engraving is the printing in
oil colours, which has been so successfully established
by Mr. George Baxter. It is the old chiaro-oscuro
engraving improved and carried on to perfection,
and is practised as follows. Tie ground, minute
details, and outlines are depicted on the first
block, and printed from it in neutral tint. After this,
block succeeds block, each bearing a different colour or
shade ; and some of the beautiful little printed paintings (if
we may use the term) we see so cheap have received impres-
sions from no less than 20 blocks. This process has been ap-
plied to a certain extent in the printing of coloured maps, but
being too tedious and expensive has been most ingeni-
ously adapted and modified. Suppose a map wants
four colours, four coloured blocks are fixed in ono
frame, which moves by machinery in the most exact way
on the table of the printing-press. Beneath this frame, a
large four-quartered sheet is placed, and receives an im-
pression, each quarter bearing a different colour. This done,
the frame is turned round one quarter, bringing a different
colour to bear on each portion of the printed sheet. The
impression is again taken, and the process continued until
the whole number of colours has been deposited. Even
the union of two colours to form a third—namely, yellow
and blue to make a green—is accomplished now to per-
fection, from the rapidity by which the process is carried
on, and thus six or seven colours may be produced from
the four blocks in the frame.—Chambers's Journal.

THE CASE OF ALLEGED MURDER AND ROBBERY
IN SPITALFIELDS._Mr. Humphreys held an adjourned
inquest yesterday morning at the Seven Stars Tavern,
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, on the body of Joseph Rickleswortb,
aged 77, who, it was alleged, had been drugged and robbed
in a lodging-house, No. 194, Brick-lane. Before he died
he made a statement to that effect, and said that Black
Charley, a quack doctor, and another man had done the
deed. He had been ill for some time, and as there was no
corroborative evidence of his statement, not even of con-
nection with the post-mortem examination of the body, the
jury returned a verdict of " Death from effusion of serum
on the brain by natural causes."

THE LIVERPOOL PENSIONERS.—This corps was
inspected at Everton yesterday byGeneral Sir John Jones
The officers in command were Col. Mounsteven and Major
Faulkner. The total muster, rank and file, was 347. After
putting the corps through battalion movements the inspect-
ing officer complimented the men upon their clean and
orderly appearance, and said that in all respects he would
be able to present a favourable report to the War-office.
During the firing a boy was shot in the face, owing to one
of the men having left his ramrod in the barrel, and he will
probably lose his eyesight. The ramrod struck the ground
before hitting the boy.

THE ALLEGED WILFUL MURDER AT EXETER.—
The man Knowles, who killed Mr. Phillimore by stabbing
him, in the course of a dispute some ago, was on Saturday
committed for wilful murder by the Exeter magistrates.
THE INMAN LINE.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The
Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship
Companyef New yhave
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from thew steamship City
Clyde, where
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she was built by Messrs. Tod and M`Gregor, of Glasgow,
the builders of all the other steamers ordered by the com-
pany. She ran the measure distance on the Clyde at the
rate of 12.614 knots per hour, and is expected to be a fast
and good ocean-going vessel. With this addition to their
fleet, the company announce their intention to send two
vessels, one on the usual mail day, Wednesday. and the
other at the end of each week from Liverpool to New
York, and vice versa, offering facilities for traffic be-
tween England, Ireland, and the United States not
hitherto equalled. The company have also building by
the same builders the steamship City of Paris, which is
expected to surpass all their other vessels in size, power
and speed.

THE RIVAL RAILWAYS OF NORTH YORKSHIRE.-
Telegrams were received ih Malton, on Monday afternoon
announcing the rejection of the Gilliug, Helmsley, and
Pickering scheme of the North-Eastern, the competing
scheme with the Leeds, North Yorkshire, and Durham,
which was quashed on the referees' report on Wednesday
last. Messengers were despatched to the towns in Rye-
dale (Helmsley, Kirby, &c.), where the news was received
with rejoicing. The effect of the decision will be to insure
the re-prosecution of both schemes de novo next Session.
Mennwhile the great agricultural district of the North
Riding and the vast ironstone deposits of the Yorkshire
moors are deprived of the facilities so greatly desired. Tho
promoters will now have time for the better perfecting their
schemes, and it is said that both parties will include the
town of Malton in next year's projects, so as to utiliso the

Malton and Driffield and gave access to
THE CIVIL SERVICE CLUB.—The members of the
civil service, who have for a long time past been looking
about for a suitable place in which to establish their newly
formed club, have at length found a home. After treating
for Montague-house and other places, they have at length
secured as their local habitation the new block of buildings
erected on the site of the once famous Thatched-house
tavern, in St. James's-street, the premises adjoining the
Conservative Club. It is expected that the doors of the
club will be opened for the reception of members early in
June.