The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.

Rather better feeling in the market, and prices
n favour of holders. Sales probably 10,000 bales.

The Price of Gold.

'The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and
;he short exchange on London is 25.10 per £1 sterling. On
oniparing these rates with the English Mint price of

100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 2-ltths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.

By advic4s from Hamburg the price of gold is 4%7 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 stcrlin .
Standard gold at the Engll.ll Mint price is, therefore. at
about 2.loths per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1061 to 1061 per cent. At these rates theme
is no profit on the importation of go'd from the United
States.

THE REFORM BILL.—As at present arranged, it
is intended to take the division in the House of
Commons on Earl Grosvenor's amendment on the
evening of Friday, the 27th.

The Government tenders for the Crown bark in
the Forest of Dean were opened yesterday at the
offices of Woods in Whitehall-place, before the
Chief Commissioner, the Hon. J. K. Howard. None
of the tenders being up to the office minimum, none
of the lots were sold. We understand the offers
were a trifle under last year's prices, although the
localities of the " strip" on this occasion ought to
have commanded ss. per ton over the quotations
realised in 1865.

A call of £5 per share is announced on the shares
of the City Offices Company, payable in two in-
stalments of £2 10s. on the Ist of June and the Ist
of September next, at the Agra and Masterman's
Bank.

In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days continued dullness has
prevailed. The public sales of tea have been
brought to a conclusion, without any material alte-
ration in prices. Sugars have been in very limited
request at barely previous rates, while a moderate
demand has been apparent for coffee, at former
quotations. Rice continues in fair request, and a
large business has been done in tallow, but at re-
duced prices for both present and forward delivery.
The beautiful plantation of Mrs. Johnston, in
Madison county, Mississippi, has been sold to J.
B. Richardson, of Boston, Massachusetts, who
intends to make it his family residence. The price
paid was $50,000 in greenbacks. Before the war
this plantation was considered worth $300,000.
COST OF BARRACKS, &C., at Hong-KoNG.—A
return was issued yesterday which shows that, from April
1 to Sept. 30, 1865, £46 13s. 10d. was expended cn fortifi-
cations, £146 lls. 2d. upon military store buildings, and
£3,194 4s. 2d. upon barracks at Kong-Kong and Kowloon.
During the same periud £957 9s. was paid for temporary
buildings.

The Gazette Belgc states that the chief command
of the civic guards of Belgium, vacant by the death of
Baron d'Hooghvorst, will be conferred on the Count de
Flandre.

A MAD DOG IN SALFORD.—No little excitement
was caused in Salford yesterday afternoon, by a mad dog,
which was found running in the streets. About ono
o'clock, information was received at the police station
that a big black dog, quite mad, had bitten several
persons and was likely to bite more. One young man
showed the police a mark on his leg where the skin
had been broken by the animal's teeth. Several officers
immediately went in search of the dog, and found it in
Chapel street. It ran into the shop of Mr. Armitage,
greengrocer, and hid under the counter. Turned out of
this retreat, it ran into a house in Brewery-street, where
the constables caught it and put it to death. Sergeant
llargreaves, acting under the authority of the Court Leot,
as dog muzzier, seized the brute with a pair of huge tongs
or tweezers, and a by-sstander with a hammer struck it a
death-blow on the head. The chase and capture occupied
a quarter of an hour,
Count g, Minister of Grand Ducal
lless
o,baddtEten honourzeliber of being received the day before
yesterday by the Emperor at a private audience, and of
presenting a letter in which the Grand Duke notified the
decease of the Landgravo of Resse-llomburg and his own
accession to the vacant landgravate.

" Some of the journals" says the France, an-
nounced that M. Mires will shortly take a prominent posi-
tion in Paris journalism. He is said to have purchased
the greater part of the shares in the Presse, the direction
of which will, according to report, be confided to him.
The Presse will thenceforth be devoted to the defence of
the Government policy, under the chief editorship of M.
Cucheval-Clarigny, one of the editors of the Patric.
Owing to those changos,M. 011ivier is to retire from his
present post in connection with the Presse, and has al-
ready applied to the Minister of the Interior for authori-
sation to found a new journal, to be entitled Lu Peuple,
the political programme of which will be a frank adhesion
to the dynasty with an exten.siou of liberty."