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

Liverpool Cotton Market—Thus 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—Octavia,
rrom 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. £9.—Wind
for Melbourne.

HOLYHEAD, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Ar#v@d-r-Areturnis,
from Rio Janoiro.

LONDONDERRY, Aug. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Prince
Consort, from Callao.

BRISTOL, Aug. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Adolaide,
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 11 per mills pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.22 i per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of L•
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 2-IGthe per cent, dearer in London than in Paris.
The mune of exchange at New York on London for bills et
60 days' sight is 109 to 109 t per cent. At these rates there is
no profit on the importation of god from the United States.
By adviocs from Hamburg the Mice of gold is 428 per marl
and the short exchange on London is 13.71 per £1 stall n .
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10 tbs per cent_ dearer in London thin 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 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.—Triilmer's Oriental and
American Literary Record.

ct 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 moveable columns
which arrest many individuals, but have not yet been able
to secure a single guilty person."
ALLEGED MURDER AT WOGLIVICH.—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 wadingto 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 deceasedhad £8 or £9 on him ;
but according to his wife's statement he could not have had
more than 30s. When the body wa found the deceased's
watch and money were gone. The watch, it was found, had
been pledged by the mate, who hid made contradictory
statements as to where he and the &teased 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 exarkiwt tion to be made.
JOHN BRI GHT'S SPIRIT UNBURDENED.--
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 ntuch 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 min cause of it is ended
with it. Henceforth you are a fret people, and a great
future is opening to you."
The Scotsman says:—Mr. Hairy James Moncreiff
is likely to be appointed an advocate-depute, a vacancy
having occurred by the appointmelt of Mr. Adam Gifford,
late senior depute, to the Sheriffslip of Orkney and Shet-
land.

CRYSTAL PALACE.— ONE 41ILLING DAY, Tues-
day, Aug. 29.—Admissions on paxnent, 28,710 ; ditto .by
season tickets, 3,762—t0tal visitors, 32,472.