The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-04 00:00:00

,IDUESTIIRE

Age st lb
Numa Pompilius 6 13
Prior 3 6 12
Phantom 4 6 12
Standard Bearer ... 3 6 12
Robin Rover ... 3 6 12
Toison d'Or ... 3 6 12
Chanoinosso ... 3 6 10
Miss Dayrell ... 3 6 10
Bosworth ... ... 3 6 9
Lopez ... 3 6 9
Pompeii ... 3 6 9
Ilacduff ... 4 6 9
Anthee ... 4 6 8
Tramp ... ... 3 6 8
Defender ... 3 6 8
Curieuso ... 3 6 8
Cocoa Nut... ... 3 6
Far Away... ... 3 6
Anlace ... 3 6 7
Royal Rake .. 3 6 7
Neuchatel... ... 3 6 6
Chatelherault ... 3 6 6
Atonement ... 3 6 5
Bertha .. ... 3 6 5
Peabody ... ... 3 6 5
Teeswater... ... 3 6 5
Dodona ... 3 6 4
Jove ... ... 3 6
Provider ... ... 3 6
Rerennianus 4 6
Vestminster ... 3 6
Winifred ... ... 3 6 3
Royal Head ... 3 6 2
Vacuum 3 6 1
Red Rice 3 6 0
Vladimir 3 6 0
Wanderer ... 3 6
Allbrook .. 3 6 0
Vallation g ... 4 5 13
The Returned ... 4 012
Kaupai ... a 5 10
Juanita ... 3 5 10
Lady Evelyn f ... 3 5 10
Turret . ... 3 5 10
Assineboine ... 5 5 10
King Alfred's dam f. 3 5 9
Antietam ... 3 5 8
Lamlash ... 3 5 7
Di Spanker ... 3 5 7
Cherie ... 3 5 7
Toby ... ... 3 5 7
Aubade ... 3 5 7
Grasshopper f. ... 3 5 7

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
t'le short exchange on London is 25f. 15e. per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
ils.loid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold at the above price is slightly dearer in Paris than in
London.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at GO
days' sight was 1071 per cent. on the 20th inst. At this rate there
would be a loss on the transmission of gold from the United
tates.

The news from the Pacific slope tells of two
events of interest connected with explorers. A mutilated
document was found on the coast of California, Aug. 30, giv-
ing intelligence of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition.
On the margin, in six languages, a request to the finder
was inserted to transmit the papers to the British Admi-
ralty. " The party wintered at Boechy Island in 1846
and 1847, and Sir John Franklin dfed June 11th, 1847.
The expedition, reduced to 105 persons under the com-
mand of Captain F. R. M. Crozier, had deserted the ex-.
ploring vessels Erebus and Terror, and had reached lati-
tude 69 degrees, 37 minutes and 42 seconds, and longi-
tude 98 degrees, 11 minutes and 5 seconds. Relics of Sir
John Ross were discovered, and where the document
was thrown into the• water. This story will require
close investigation. Buenaventura lies on the south-west
coast of California, in latitude 34 degrees, 18 minutes
North, and 119 degrees, 17 minutest West, and the docu-
ment must have been carried around the north coast
of North America, and through Behring's Straits,
or from the north pole to near the equator.
No dates are given except for the death of
Franklin, which occurred long before the papers were en-
trusted to the sea, and no mention is made of any case or
bottle to protect them from injury. A written manuscript
would be entirely obliterated, and would be reduced to
pulp by twenty years' immersion in the sea. It has been
suggested that the papers in question have been made up
from the record of Franklin's Expedition, discovered in
1859, on King William's Land, by Captain 11‘Clintock.
In a cairn, built in 1831, by Sir John Ross' expedition, a
tin case was deposited by the survivors of the Franklin
party, and gave an account of their sufferings down to
April the 25th, 1848." Dr Hall returned to New Bed-
ford from his five years' Arctic exploration on the
26th of September. He discovered the skeletons of
several of Sir John Franklin's party at King William's
Laud, and lie brought numerous relics of the expe-
dition. Lady Franklin immediately dispatched a message
asking if he had any of their journals or writings, to which
the reply was, None. —The other subject of interest is the
return of Colonel Powell to Salt Lake City on his way
home. He arrived, August 30, at the junction of the
Virgin river with the Colorado iu Arizona, which is the
head of the navigation. This, of course, has carried him
through the unknown portions of the river, and we may
anticipate an interesting account from the enterprising
voyageur. Unfortunately, three of his companions were
killed by Indians of the Shebett tribe, who, according to
the Indian account, were found very hungry and put on
the trail leading to Washington in Southern Utah. They
met a squaw gathering seed, and, the Indians say shot
her, whereupon three men of the Shebett tribe followed
and killed them.