The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-02 00:00:00

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25f. 15,3. per ft sterline
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
£3 tis. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appe4rs that
gold at the above price is slightly dearer :in Paris than in
London.

I ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Pills.—Confusion: gid-
diness, flushes, pains of the head, with other indications of
coming illness, should have early attention, or palpitation
and uneasy feelings about the heart will succeed, and be
followed in their turn by more serious symptoms. Holl
way's pills display their most constant and happiest results
in dispelling those disagreeable feelings, cleaning the furred
tongue, romdng the torpid bowels, and removing the lan-
guor and 11: aulency which are always oppressive after
taking food.. No medicine is so well calculated to restore
the dFgesf,ve lime ions or so potent to soothe the nervous
system. The dyspeptic, by taking these purifying pills,
will sub stituto ease for pain, and once more renew vigour
in the I,rasting body.

Rear-A,liniral Charles Stewart died on the 6th
inst., aged 91, at Border Town, New Jersey. He
was born in Philadelphia, July 28, 1778, and en-
tered the naval service of the United States, March
1798, as lieutenant, being not quite twenty years
old, and was assigned to the frigate United States,
making his first cruise with Commodore Barry. In
1800 he captured the French schooner Two Friends,
of eight guns, the action lasting scarcely ten minutes,

and the French privateer Diana, of fourteen guns,

also after a short action. Lieutenant Stewart was
promoted to first lieutenant and ordered to the
frigate Constellation, employed in the blockade of
Tripoli, in 1802. He was then appointed to the
command of the brig Siren, belonging to the squad-
ron commanded by Commodore Preble, and parti-
cipated with that officer in the naval operations of
1804 against Tripoli. He supported the gallant

and successful attempt of Decatur to destroy the
grounded American frigate Constitution, participated
in the attacks on the city and its defences, and for
his services in the bombardment of Aug. 3, 1804,
was thanked by Preble in general orders, promoted to
the rank of commander, and at the conclusion of the
war returned to New York in command of the Constel-

lation. Shortly after he was appointed to the command
of the Constitution. The cruise of the Constitution is
memorable. February 20 she fell in with the Bri-
t'sh ships Cyane and Levant, heavier in metal,
fought the triangular battle by night and captured
them both. Civic honours were bestowed upon the
victorious captain by New York and Philadelphia ;
Congress voted him a gold medal and silver ones
to his commissioned officers, and passed a vote of
thanks to him, his officers, and men ; and the Le-
gislature of Pennsylvania voted him a gold sword.
In 1857 he was placed on the retired list, and
though again placed by special act on the active
list, was not long since relieved from command. He
was buried on the 11th inst. at Philadelphia with
imposing ceremonies, the Governor of Pennsyl-

vania and many of the most distinguished of the
Army and Navy bearing the pall. The Secretary
of the Navy left Washington to be present, and by
his order the bureaux were closed, the flag dis-
played at half-mast, and minute guns fired, which
also are to be fired by American vessels in foreign
waters on the news reaching them.
Major-General John E. IVool, who died at Troy,
New Yolk, on the 10th November, was born at Newburgh
in that State in 1789. - His first pursuit in life was pro-
prietor of a book store in Troy, but having lost his stock
by fire he studied law till the war of 1812, when ho obtained
a commission in the 13th Infantry, r.pidly rising to the
rank of Brigadier-General and Inspector General of the
whole army. In 1832 he was sent to examine the military
systems in Europe, and was present at the siege of Ant-
werp. On returning he inspected the coast defences from
Maine to the Mississippi. In the Mexican war he orga-
nized and despatched from the west 12,000 troops, and at
the head of 3,000 crossed the Rio Grande, marching 900
miles, scarcely losing a man and preserving the good-
will of the people. He selected the ground of Buena
Vista, and commanded in the earlier part of the engage-
ment till General Taylor's arrival, who spoke highly
of his serv:ces. He was promoted to Major-General, and
on the return home of General Taylor commanded the
army of occupation. Never was a bet er instance given
than that then furnished by General Wool of how Mexico
ought to be governed. The country was cleared of rob-
bers and guerillas, and more perfect order enforced than is
found in the United States. He afterwards commanded in
the Department of the East. In the three months' cam-
paign in 1856 he ended the Indian disturbances in Wash-
ington and Ore lon. On the outbreak of the Civil War he
organized, equipped, and sent to Washington the first re-
giment of Volunteers from New York, and by reinforcing
Colonel Dimick at Fortress Monroe saved it from the
Confederates. Shortly after he was sent there as Com-
mander of the Department of Virginia, whence ho marched
on Norfolk. After being promoted Major-General in the
regular army he was transferred to the command of the
Middle Department, with head-qmirters at Raltimoro, and
on the close of the war was retired. He was considered
the best organizer of a military force in the United
States.

The late George Peabody's tomb 's in Harmony
Grove Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts. His
nephew, Mr. Peabody Russell, ha.; arrived in Eng-
land as the nearest male relative, and he will escort
the body to its last resting place. Ile has already
inspected the arrangements made in the Monarch,
and a cabin in that vessel has been allotted to him.
The grave in Harmony Grove was selected by Mr.
Peabody many years ago. It is a beautiful ceme-
tery, and many of his kindred are there buried.
The first money earned by the philanthropist was
for ballots written for the Federal4arty in New-
bury port. James Read, of Boston, was the first
merchant who gave him credit, and the transaction
led to a long business connection, and a lasting
friendship. As a lad Mr. Peabody's company was
sought, and there are men livin g who have contributed
to pay his share of juvenile parties rather than be
without his society. During his first residence in
London he lived very frugally, breakfasting at
his lodging and dining at a club, expenses for
ten years averaging £6OO. He was a beautiful
penman, and wrote straight to the point, receiving
a high compliment from Chief Justice Shaw, who
asserted that a document written by him was one
of the clearest and most comprehensive papers ever
presented to the Supreme Court. His benefactions
towards and earnest interest in the progress of edu-
cation may have arisen from feeling the want of
these advantages, hating been taken from school at
the early age of eleven. His recorded gifts began
in 1851, when he bore the entire expense of arrang-
ing the American department at the World's fair
in London. In the following year he presented his
native town of Danvers with $20,000, as a founda-
tion fund for the " Peabody Institute," which he
has since increased to $200,000. He also defrayed
the entire expenses of the second expedition
in search of Sir John Franklin. In 1857 he
made his first endowment ($200,000) of the Balti-
more (Maryland) free library, to which he after-
wards added $300,000, and again in 1866 $300,000.
His donation of $1,750,000 to improve the condi-
tion of the labouring poor in London was made in
1862, and the systematic charity which he then

established has been in successful operation ever
since. Mr. Peabody's greatest beneficence in his
own country, the Southern Educational Fund, was
created in 1866, being at that time $1,000,000, to
which $1,000,000 was added in July last, the entire
annual revenue being $130,000. Other donations
of Mr. Peabody are as follows :—to Phillips Aca-
demy in Andover, $25,000 ; to the Newburyport
Library, $15,000 ; to building a new church in
Georgetown, $lOO,OOO ; to a library in the same
town, $16,000; to the Essex Institute at Salem,
$140,000; to the library at Thetford, Vermont,
$5,000 ; to the Massachusetts Historical Society,
$20,000; to the Peabody Institute of Archaeology,
at Cambridge, $150,000 ; to found a geological
branch at Yale College, $150,000 ; to the Maryland
Historical Society, $20,000 ; to Washington Col-
lege, Virginia, $6,000 ; to Kenyon College, Ohio,
$25,000 ; for a library in Georgetown, District of
Columbia, $15,000; making altogether considerably
over $7,000,000. Of his relatives in America he
was not unmindful, distributing among them
$1,500,000. During the Rebellion he also gave
$lO,OOO to the Sanitary Fund. These sums are
independent of what may be bequeathed by will,
of which it is known that £150,000 has been added
to his gift to the London poor. The American
papers estimate his estate at $1,600,000, which they
assert his will distributes among twenty-nine per-
sons. The Peabody Institute at Berverly remains
closed and draped in black till the arrival of the re-
mains. The funds for a monument are being col-
lected and a committee organised, called the Pea-
body Monument Fund, in New York, each sub-
scriber paying one dollar. The departure of the
Monarch from Portsmouth has been postponed to
await the arrival of the United States frigate Rich-
mond and the other vessels detailed to convoy her.
She will not therefore sail before the sth or 6th of
December, and as she will coal at Fayal her pas-
t sage is not likely to be very rapid. The vessel lies

The Hon. Robert James Walker, who died at
Washington on the 11th inst., was born at Nor-
thumberland, Pennsylvania, in 1801. He graduated
in 1819, studied law and began practice at Phts-
burgh in 1821 ; removed to Natch, z, Mississippi,
1826 ; elected United States Senator, 1835. His
second term, i n 1845, was cut short by President Pol k
who appointed him Secretary of the Treasury. In
1857 became Governor of Kansas, which he resigned
from political disagreements, and of ter that appeared
little before the public. He made a great aJdress,
however, in support of the Government on the out-
break of the war, in Union-square, New York ; and
was nominated a delegate to the Philadelphia NA..
tional Union Con vention in 1866.

FOREIGN NOTES.
THE BRITISH-AILERICAN PROVINCES.

A general election has been held in Newfoundland,
and it is apprehended that the majority of the members
returned will be opposed to confederation. This
is a matter of great importance to the other pro-
vinces, as Newfoundland guards the entrance to the St.
Lawrence, and without it the Dominion will be incomplete
and 'comparatively insecure. The population of the coun-
try, which has an area of 3,800 square miles, is only
150,000, and are mainly devoted to seafaring pursuits. The
interior of the island is as yet unexplored, as the popula-

tion live on the coasts. In one year the sealproduce was
sold for a million sterling, and the cod fishery has been
known to yield another million. French and American
fishermen also obtain large hauls of fish in these waters,
and 300 foreign vessels have been seen at one time off the
Magdalen Islands. Some apprehensions are entertained of

differences arising between the British and American
fishermen, as, owing to the abrogation of the Reciprocity
Treaty, the Americans have no right to fish within certain
limits of the shore, and are by no means disposed to abide
by the legal distinction.
The Legislature of Ontario is now in session, and
many public works of importance are in contemplation,
especially the extension of railway lines and the draining
of swamp lands. The people manifest great willingness
to be taxed for these objects.