The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-29 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.17 i per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
lie. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about the same price in London and. Paris.
The eourse of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 155 i pecicent., and the puke of gold
142 j per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the im
portatiou of gold from the Unites States.

TIIE EGYPTIAN FLEET.—The lilessager du Midi
states that orders have been given to the forges and build-
ing-yards of La Seyno by the Viceroy of Egypt, amount-
ing to more than 14 millions of francs.

We read in a Paris letter :—" The Prince Imperia
nearly invariably appears in Highland costume, and is
getting on wonderfully with his English studies. He re-
ceived as a present the other day from his august father a
complete edition of the works of Charles Dickens."

Is AN ILLEGITIMATE CIIILD LIABLE FOR THE
SUPPORT OF HIS MOTHER ?—On this point, which
was raised some few days ago at the Birmingham Police-
court, Mr. T. C. S. Kinnersley, the stipendiary, on Tuesday
delivered a judgment to the effect that as there is nothing
in that statute to attach a liability to the mother, so
a fortiori there is nothing to render an illegitimate child
liable ; and as the application for an order is grounded on
that statute only, and on no other, he was satisfied that he
had no authority to grant it.

WllO WAS Dn. FAUSTUS 2—The number of places
which have disputed the credit of having been the
scene of Faust's history, or at least of his end, has no doubt
tended to throw discredit on the reality of his existence;
for, while the original story asserts that his death occurred
at Rimlich, a village near Wittenberg, yet, at Maulbronn,
a bloodstained place is shown as the spot where it took
place, and at Cologne a window through which the Devil
is said to have flown away with him. Another window at
the castle of Waerdenberg makes the same claim, some ir-
removable bloodstains being pointed out as proofs of its
justness, while similar marks at Pratau, near Wittenberg,
are held by the natives to demonstrate that as having been
the locality so distinguished. Yet however, conflicting
may be the evidence as to the details of Faust's life or
death, there seems no reason to doubt that a person of that
name did play some such part as that described in the
story. As the " Conversations Lexicon" remarks, "some
Cagliostro of the 15th or 16th century was probably the
germ out of which the tale of Dr. Faustus grew." The
earliest mention of the name of Faust as a magician occurs
in a letter from the Abbot Trithemius to a mathematician
named Wirdung, in which the writer recounts that, when
travelling in 1506 (80 years before Spies' History was
printed), he had come to a place where a certain George Sa-
bellius, whom he charactorises as an impostor more fool thsn
magician, had been performing many wonders, and had left
behind him a card on which ho described himself as
" Georgina Sabellius, Faustus junior, necromancer, &c.,
&c." The insertion of the word " junior" shows evidently
that even at this early period the name of Faust was al-
ready well known in connection with magical associations.
Again, G. Gask, a Protestant theologian, in 1548 affirmed
that he himself had dined with the sorcerer Faust at
Basle, and was entertained with a banquet of strange
birds, unknown to him and quite foreign there. He
mentions, too, his having a dog and a horse, both
of whom were thought to be demons, and that he
had been told that the dog appeared at times in
the form of a servant, supplying food to his master. He
concludes, "The wretched man came to a fearful end, for
the devil strangled him ; his body would lie upon the bier
on its face, though it had ban turned five times." But the
witness who is considered to bo the most credible of all is
Joho.un Memel or Manlius, a pupil of Malancthon, who,
in a collection bearing date 1560, gives, as from the mouth
of his master, an account of the famous magician Faust,
as of one with whom the latter had been personally ac-
quainted. He, too, asserts that ho was found one morning
lying on his face, having been killed by the devil at mid-
night. A portrait of him is also extant, marked with the words
" Het portrait van Doctor Faustus," and which represents
him with a face almost boyish in its plumpness, with high
rou4ded forehead, far back on which appears a crop of short,
Cghtly curled unparted hair ; the eyebrows are arched and
well defined, the nose thick, the chin large, and adorned
with a little " imperial" tuft j us t under the lower lip, while the
upper displays a smooth neatly-curved moustache. The
figure is simply attired in a round cloak, with a gathered
frill-collar.—The Devil and Dr. laustas, in the " Cornhill
Magazine" for December.

FOREIGN RAIL WAYS.
Rabin and San Francisco, ILn., gua. 7 per cent., 12;
Paris and Orleans, 34
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15;
FOREIGN MINES.
Cobre Copper, i.

BANKS.

Anglo Austrian, 65
Anglo Egyptian, lira., 105
British North American, 47i
Consolidated Bans, lint., ak
imperial Ottoman, Um., 85
Lapii Mortgage Bank of ludia, Urn., 25
New South Wales, 445
Union of London, 41

DOCKS.

Condon and:St Katharine,
Ditto, Debenture Stock, 87
MISCELLANEOLIB,
Anglo-American Telegraph, 143
Atlantic Telegraph,
Ditto, 8 per cent., 75 31
Bombay Gas, lira.,
Ditto, new, 2;
Credit r oncier of England. .23 ;
Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira., 43
Fore-street Warehouse, lim. 12; •
Gen. Credit and Finance of I:911U an, lim., 33 3
Hudson's Bay, 161
Otago and Southland Investment, 1
Peninsula and Oriental steam, 64
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 19
Royal Mail. Steam. 8
Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 75 43

COURSE OF EXORANGE---Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 15} 11 16]
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 42 25 47]
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 8f 13 9
Paris ..• Short 25 15 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 40
Marsoilles
Frankfurt on the Maine 1191 120
Vienne. — 13 13 15
Trieste — 13 13 15
Pctorsburgn - 30f 31
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 27 15 27 25
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon .. —51 f
Oporto — 51} 511

An Admiral's good service pension is at the dis•
posal of the First Lord of Admiralty by Admiral
Sir Phipps Ifornby, G-.C.13, becoming War-Ad-
miral of the United Kingdom,

The Lord Chief Justice—May not imperfect respiration
in some cases produce tubercles ?
Witness—Certainly not by itself. There is a number of
classes of disease of the heart in which, through the circu-
lation of the venous and artereal blood, there is imperfect
respiration, in which there is a remarkable absence of
tubercles. In cases of diseases of the spine imperfect re-
spiration occurred without the formation of tubercles, and
indeed it was the general opinion of the profession that
tubercular disease wrs not common in such cases.

The Chief Justice—Do ion not suppose that imperfect
respiration proceeds from'a derangement of the respiration ?

Witness—By no means.
Mr. Quain—Turn to the following passaq : "Sherrer,
in his Analysis, says that 54 per cent. of the molli of tuber-
cles consisted of carbon, and was the true cause of tuber-
cles. Carbon was inimical to life."
Witness —That statement was contrary to truth as re-
garded the inference drawn from " Sherror's Analysis."
Carbon was the same as charcoal, and was a remarkably
inert substance, and was occasionally used in large quan-
tities without any danger, and it had been known to lie in
the system for years without injury. It was, in fact, a
mechanical and not a medical agent.- To say that carbon
was the true cause of tubercles was perfectly in-
consistent with medical experience-53 and a fraction
per cent. of carbon was certainly found in tubercles, and
the remaining parts consisted of oxygen, hydrogen, and
nitrogen ; but carbon was found in other animal tissue to
a greater extent. (Hero the witness read a portion of the
work of Sherrer to show that the opinion and deductions
of that writer in uo way supported Dr. Hunter's on this
point.)
Mr. Quain drew the attention of the witness to a state-
ment of Dr. Hunter, that neglected catarrhs, colds, and
sore throats invariably led to consumption.
Witness—That statement might be taken as a gross
exaggeration of the fact.. It could not be denied that
catarrhs and colds in persons predisposed to pulmonary
disease might develops consumption in its early stage. The
system of inhalation had been practised by him at the
Brompton Hospital and eight other physicians for
the last fifteen years, but it was quite cer-
tain that medicine could not reach the lungs as
administered in the ordinary way. Tho ingredients he
used for the purposes of inhalation were hemlock,
shamonum, and chloroform. Latterly he had not resorted
to inhalations as much as he had previously, because he
considered them too transient tin their effects, and were
only subordinate to the administration of medicine in the
usual way. The quantity of medicine that could reach
the lungs through inhalation was very small,
and there was an uncertainty as to the quantity that might
be used, in consequence of a difference of constitution in
patients. The practice he resorted to in regard to inhala-
tion was to make the patient inhale the medicine from a
jug of hot water, so covered asto prevent the escape of the
vapour. He had used an instrument. He did not know
what description of instrument Dr. Hunter used, and there
was nothing in his work to explain it. The witness ex-
pressed his dissent from different other portions of Dr. Hun-
ter's theory, and was subjected to a long cross-examina-
tion.

Several ether witnesses were called, but the case was
not concluded when we went to press.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before M r. Registrar Pepys.
IN RE LEOPOLD REDPATII.
In this case, which has been before the court for some
ten years, the bankrupt is the notorious Leopold Redpath,
whose gigantic frauds and forgeries upon the Great
Northern Railway Company, in whose service he was a
clerk, created so much excitement at the time, and finally
led to his transportation for life. To-day a final dividend
was dechired, there being a sum of £1,137 in hand.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

THE ACTION AGAINST SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., 31. P-
. V. SIR ROBERT PEEL.

This case, which has been before the court on many oc-
casions recently, was again set down for hearing on the
application of the defendant for a new trial. It was stated
that the debts and costs had been paid into court, and that
the matter could not be contested. Mr. Turner (Freshfield
and Newman), however, attended for the Baronet, though
no one appeared for the plaintiff, the money paid in having
been accepted.

Mr. Turner produced along bill of costs from plaintiff's
attorney, tho total of which was £l4 Bs., and considered
that it was monstrous to send in such a bill to Sir Robert
Peel.
His Honour—l cannot tax the bill.

Mr. Turner—No, sir, but there may be some slight extra
costs to which plaintiff has been put, and we do not object
to pay those ; but to charge extra costs £l4 Bs. upon a
claim of less than £4 is absurd.

His Honour—The plaintiff does not appear, and if', I
suppose, satisfied with the money paid in.
Mr. Turner —That may be so, sir, but I should like to
have the matter finally disposed of, as wo do not wish to
be brought to the Court upon this subject any moro.
His Honour said ho could only strike out the case, as
the plaintiff was absent.
The case was then struck out.