The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-16 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON THEATRg.

The days of pantomime are indeed revived. Mr.
Nelson Lee, the author of one hundred and ninety-
nine, has this year achieved a triumph over every
other manager. His production of the " Fox and the
Grapes" is not only the best in London, but the best
placed on the stage, and the best acted. There is a
completeness throughout not to be found at any other
establishment. The transformation scene is the theme
of admiration front the elite of the city. If we may
judge from the crowds—from east, west, north, and
south—who nightly flock to the City of London Theatre,

it is filling the coffers of the treasury to an extent
never before witnessed. All lovers of truly legitimate
pantomime in a complete fcrm should pay a visit to
this house of call for pantomime, to see Mr. Nelson
Lee's own pantomime of the " Fox and Grapes ; or,
Harlequin Old Father tEsop." The Harlequin of Mr.
W. H. Harvey is well known, as also is the Pantaloon
of Mr. Morrelli and the Columbine of Miss Sanger,
but the Clown of Mr. A. Forrest is new to a London
audience. This gentleman has gained a perfect triumph.
He is certainly the best in London ; he has real fun
without ♦ulgarity. Go and see him. We understand
the next great novelty is a monstre drama, from the
pen of the late Mr. John Wilkins, to be entitled
" Selfishness." There are twenty extra machinists em-
ployed on the machinery alone, and six additional
painters. It is to be produced in a few days.

PRIOR OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 4 per mille premium (according to the last tariff),
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.27 ;
and, the exchange at Penis on London at short being
25'35, it follows that gold is about 0'32 per cent. dearer
in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg
the price of gold is 425 per mark, which, at the English
Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 13.44 ; and, the exchange at Ham-
burg on London at short being 13.6, it follows that gold
is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for
bills at 60 days' sight is 108 per cent,, and, th•
par of exchange between England and America being
109 23.40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nomi-
nally 1.08 per cent. against England ; but, after making
allowance for charges of transport and difference of in-
terest, the present rate leaves no profit on the transmis-
sion of gold either way between the twe countries.

THE KIN. OP PRUSSIA'S REPLY TO THE RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY DEPUTATION.-Our readersvrill remember that
Sir Culling Eardley, and others, as representatives of
different countries, waited on the King of Prussia some
weeks ago, at Cologne, as a deputation from the Paris
Evan,4elical Alliance Conference. His Majesty's answer
is published in extenso in the Post Zeitung of Frankfort.
It is dated the 11th Dec., 1855, and signed by his Ex-
cellency M. de Bernsdorff. The representative of the
King reiterates, at the outset, in the name of his august
Sovereign, the assurances of hearty goodwill given by
the King himself to the deputation at Cologne; he then
informs Sir Culling Eardley that his Majesty has ordered
a searching inquiry with respect to the acts of intoler-
aloe which bad been notified b him by the deputation
Flavin,' been committed in his own dominions ; and
has, he as, moreover, instructed his representatives at
Vie Courts of Electoral Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, I
Saxe-Meiningen, and Schaumburg-Lippe, to call the at-
tention of those Governments to the acts of persecution
committed in these several states, as set forth also by
the deputation, and to urge an inquiry, and the adop•
tion of measures for insuring religious liberty to Baptist
Christians. In conclusion, his Majesty requests Sir
Culling Eardley to communicate this reply to the mem-
bers of the deputation.

BOOTS.—The notices in the French papers of the Paris
Exhibition have almost invariably given the highest
praise, as far as British manufacture was concerned, to
" the productions of the Chairman of the Boot and Shoe
Makers' Committee of England." This being an office
somewhat strange to a contemporary, he employ■ half a
column to inform his readers that Mr. Medwin, of
Rec.eat•street, is the person in question. Thus do
small matters °coup! great minds I—Evening Paper.