The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-19 00:00:00

PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
Lie short exchange on London is 2M. 1710. per £1 sterling..
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of
100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold at the above price is the same in London and Paris.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at GU
days' sight was on the IGth inst.lo9Z per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importation of gold from the United States.

The First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by
Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, Capt. F. Beau-
champ Seymour, and Capt. G. 0. Willes, leave
Whitehall early on Monday morning for Plymouth,
and will embark on board the Agincourt, which will
proceed under steam to join the combined Mediter-
ranean and Channel squadrons that are ordered to
assemble at Gibraltar.

The North German armoured iron-built screw
frigate Kron Prinz, 16 guns, 900-horse power,
Capt. Werner, was undocked yesterday at Ports-
in3uth from the great Warrior dock, where she
has had her hull below the water line cleaned and
painted over with the protective and anti-
fouling compositions of five different inventors,
and berthed temporarily alongside the dockyard
preparatory to going out to Spithead this morning.
She is a very fine vessel as a marine war machine,
carrying no_ less than fourteen 12 ton 7-inch
muzzle-loading guns on the main deck, manufac-
tured by Krupp from his celebrated steel. The
frigate is in very good order, and, the public having
been freely admitted on board, she has been visited
by a large number of persons during the time she
has lain in the Warrior dock.

The Sirius, 6, unarmoured wood-built screw
sloop, Capt. David Miller, sailed from Spithead on
Tuesday evening for the westward and foreign ser-
vice.

EGYPTIAN EXPLORATION.—Dr. Gedge, a member
of a respected Bury St. Edmund's family, has accepted the
post of superintendent of the medical staff in Sir Samuel
Baker's expedition to Lake Nyanza. Dr. Gedge is also
intrubted by the Viceroy of Egypt with the collection of
natural history specimens for a museum about to be esta-
blished at Cairo. Sir Samuel Baker's expedition is ex-
pected to start from Alexandria on the Ist proximo for
Souakiu, on the Western shores of the Rod Sea.
SWIMMING MATCHES AT PLYMOUTH.—The chief
swimming contests which annually take place in the
west of England came off at Plymouth yesterday amid
intense interest. The All Corners' Match, of 1,000 yards,
was won by Dawe, a newspaper machinist, of Plymouth,
who came in first by 50 yards ; Mitchell, of Penzance,
being second. The other competitors included Coulter
and Pamplin, the champion swimmers of England. An
hour afterwards Dawe won the Town Cup, in another
1,000 yards race. The winner was carried on the shoulders
of enthusiastic partisans amid loud cheers from a vast
crowd.

Some acts of gallantry have attracted the atten-
tion of the American press. We give the young lady the
precedence who saved Devorois, of Baltimore, from drown-
ing. Miss Bodo, daughter of ex-Secretary Bode, was
bathing at Cape May when the gentleman got into his
perilous position, and when ho was drowning she swam
out, grasped him by the hair as he was sinking for the last
time, and succeeded in bringing him to the shore. Some
weeks ago we told how the young son of the President
gallantly saved his cousin from drowning, and at the
Brooklyn navy yard an interesting ceremony took place in
the Guerritre on the '26th July. A middy named T. B. M.
Mason, son of Col. Myers, of New York, and grand nephew
of Admiral Bailey, was then presented by the It v. Ilenry
Ward Beecher with the gold medal of the Life-s iving
Benevolent Society for rescuing in the harbour of
Rio two drunken sailors, whom he was bringing to
the ship, who jumped overboard when in irons. The
youngster never hesitated, but immediately sprang
into the water, so alive with sharks as to double the dan-
ger, and kept the seamen afloat till the boat could get
round. Perhaps the most heroic of all was the act of a
fireman of the Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain Rail-
way. The mail train wa3 running west, at full speed,
when the engineer saw what lie supposed to be a dog on
the track, but which, on nearing it, turned out to be a
child about two years old. Instantly the whistle was
blown for the breaks to be applied, and the noise attract-
ing the mother, she, seeing the danger, rau screaming to
save her infant. W. Lavanway, the fireman, knowing she
could not reach it in time, leaped from the rushing
engine, and jerked the child from under the wheels.

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S 2ORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day
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CITY BETTING.—TATS DAY.
EBOR HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Crown Princess (offered-8 to 1t)
9to 1 agst War (taken freely)
9to 1 egst Furtuuio (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst The Laird (taken and wanted)
10 to 1 agst Lord Hawthorn (offered)
10 to 1 agst Winifred (offered—take 12 to 1)
100 to 8 aget Tabouret (taken)
100 to 4 egst Aneroid (taken)
100 to 4 agat Prince (taken)
9 to 1 agst Stork and Acaster coupled (offered)
sto 1 agst War and The Laird coupled (w)
ST. LEGER.
6to 4 agst Pretender (offend)
9to 1 agst Martyrdom (offered —lO to 1 t ant w)
20 to 1 agst Thorwaldsen (offered)
CESAREWITCH.
33 to 1 agst Paul Jones (offered)
40 to 1 agst Piovost (taken and offere.l)
40 to 1 agst Cecil (offered)
40 to 1 agst Wildbai (taken and offered)
50 t 3 1 aget Miss Peddle c (offered)
66 to 1 agat benbow (taken and offered)
66 to 1 agst Tramp (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
66 to 1 agst Tramp (taken)

BROMLEY RACES-YESTBRDAT.
RAILWAY PLATE.

Topsy ........... ........
Glen Stuart ...

Piper
STAND PLATE.

Bliss

Simla
Red, White, and Blue _ a

Six ran.
BROMLEY HANDICAP.

Mars

Triana

Weather Isle

Seven ran.
SELLING STAKES.

Glen Stuart
Primula..

Empross

Malcolm

Maurice

Eight ran.
ELTEIt STAKES.

Contempt

Seven ran.
BICKLEY STAKES.

Trflo
Red, White, and Blue
Clarionetto

Four rau.
STAND CUP.

Harrogate
Gluckzu

I

STOC KTON RACES—YEsTEnDAT.
CLEVELAND STAKES.

Zeno..

Syrian

Algeria

Eight ran.
TRIAL STAKES.

Lacklan

Aggravator ,
King of the Fairies

Soren ran.

lIARRY FO\VLER STAKES.

Prior
East Coast...
La Cbarautonuo

Scum run.
SELLING STAKES.