The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-29 00:00:00

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVES END, Wednesday Morning.
Wind W. ; tide, three quarter's ebb; weather fine.

Arrived Sept. 2J.—Druid, from Gu'ernsey; Elise, from
Dantsic ; Arrowe, from Trieste ; Albion, from Dantsic ;
Prometheus, from Lsghorn ; Emma Jane, from St. Übe's ;
Fredericka, from Riga ; Matanzas, from Archangel ; Joura,
from Alexandria ; Katharina, from Leghorn ; Matilda,
from Odessa ; Tullerton, steamer, from Archangel.
Sailed, Sept. 28.—Lever, for Jersey.
Sailed, Sept. 29—Sir R. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk ;
Mowe, for Bremen; Sir E. Banks, steamer, for Calais.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind S.E. by E., fresh and fine.
Arrived—Canrobert, from Shields, for Alicante ; Aurora,
from London, for Cardiff.
Passed—Knopin, from Hull, from Malaga ; City of
Brooklyn, from London, for New Orleans ; Joshua, from
London, for Liverpool ; Azorian, from London, for Canaries;
Clipper, from Newcastle, for Southampton ; Clipper Galiot,
from Galatz, for Amsterdam.

MR. TOWNSEND PERFORMING TO HIS CONSTI-
TUENTS.—Last evening the Woolwich Theatre was crowded
by an audience consisting of a large number of the consti-
tuents of Mr. Townsend, M.P. for Greenwich, who were
attracted by the announcement that he would personate the
character of Richard the Third. Mr. Townsend was re-
ceived with much applause.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25-171
per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the Eng-
lish Mint price of £3 17s. 10:1-d per ounce for standard gold,
it appears that gold is at about the same price in London
and Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
427/ per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13-7 f
per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price
is therefore nearly 5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than
Hamburg.in The course of exchange at New York on
London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 to 109 A per cent.,
which when compared with the Mint par between the two
countries, shows that the exchange is slightly in favour of
England ; and, after making allowance for charges of trans-
port and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a
small profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.
BREAKING INTO PRISON.—On Friday morning
last the prison of Edinburgh, situated on the Calton-hill,
was broken into, as is supposed, by some of its former in-
mates, for the purpose of plunder. The wall had evidently
been scaled from the Regent-road, and the door of the
governor's office, on the left of the entranee-gate, opened by
a picklock. On the clerks coming to the office on Friday
morning they found not only that forcible entrance had
been made to the premises, but that the place had been ran-
sacked, and a desk broken open, from which about £2O in
notes and gold had been abstracted. The burglary had been
managed with considerable adroitness, but two of the city
detectives were nevertheless able to make out some traces,
and the same evening they apprehended two persons whom
they had reason to suspect as being the perpetrators. One
of these was Robert Campbell, who had only completed his
period of imprisonment for housebreaking on the 18th inst.,
and the other James M‘Gowan, who had for some time been
one of the prison warders, and had only left his situation a
fortnight ago. The prisoners were on Monday remitted by
the
_police magistrates for examination.
THE NEW SHERIFFS.—Mr. Alderman Hale and
Mr. Condor, deputy of Walbrook ward, who have been
elected to discharge the responsible duties of sheriffs of
London and sheriff of Middlesex, inaugurated their new
semi-civic reign yesterday morning by a "breakfast" at
Tallow-chandlers' Hall. Congratulatory and complimentary
addresses having been delivered, the Lord Mayor and alder-
men proceeded to the Guildhall, where the oaths were ad-
ministered first to the senior sheriff (Alderman Hale), and
then to Mr. Condor, the junior sheriff. Both these gentle-
men are sheriffs for London, and the two of them in their
corporate capacity (as the two single gentlemen rolled into
one) are "the sheriff for Middlesex." A very mistaken
notion seems to have prevailed in civic minds upon this
point, the general impression being that the two sheriffs
were sheriffs for London, the senior sheriff being sheriff for
Middlesex. Mr. T. Jones, of King's Arms-yard, and Mr.
Surr, the senior and junior under sheriffs respectively, were
admitted to a subscription of the usual oaths. The proceed-
ings were of little more than a formal nature, and at their
conclusion the Lord Mayor and aldermen, with the officials,
retired to their council chamber, where the new sheriffs
were inducted to their seats.

THE FIRE ON THE LONDON AND NORTH -WESTERN
RAILWAY.-At the New-street station of the London and
North-Western Railway, in Birmingham, the average num-
ber of trains per day passing through amounts to no fewer
than 159. Since the destruction by fire of Baswick-bridge,
on the Trent Valley line, that number has been augmented
by the addition of not less than 50 trains per day; the Liver-
pool and Manchester traffic, which usually passed over the
Trent Valley having, in consequence of the accident, to pass
over the Stour Valley line, and so through the Birmingham
Central Station. Increased vigilance on the part of the
officials has of course been necessary, but not the slightest
stoppage has been occasioned.—Bironingham Journal.

A WONDERFUL WOMAN.—There is now living
at Leirboll, in Kildonan Strath, a woman who may well be
regarded as a living wonder. Her name is Widow Wm.
Sunderland, and she has reached the great age of 104 years.
What is still more remarkable, she continues to enjoy the
most wonderful health and use of her faculties, can narrate
circumstances that transpired 96 years ago, and in appear-
ance more resembles a woman of the age of 6.5 years than
one exceeding 100. About a fortnight ago she was for two
days engaged with the reapers in cutting the crop of Mr.
31Kay, Old Glebe, Kildonan. She is as straight as a young
girl, is very spirited, and her lively, dark-brown eye and in-
telligent countenance cannot fail to astonish all who see her.
She travels to Hehusdale, a distance of 13 miles, almost
every quarter, and feels little exhausted.—. Northern
Ensign.