The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-27 00:00:00

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THE TRICE OF GOLD

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille prem.,
and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling.
107ns.colornid.paring these rates with the English Mint Pri t
ce
gold is ni
per ounce for standard gold, it appears tha
at:about the same Nice in London and in Paris.
BY adrices from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per £1 sterling
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sitlit is 1071 to 108 per cent., which, when compared
With the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the
exchange is against England, But, after making allowance
for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present
Price leaves no profit on sending gold to the United States.

A letter from Berne, dated the 23d of November,
says :—" Yesterday and to-day the Federal Council held
two long sittings, in which a new Note was discussed, to
be addressed to France concerning the Valley des Dappes.
The greatest secrecy will be preserved in respecting the
tenour of that Note until it has reached its destination. It
will then be published in the Federal Gazette. The French
Minister has had another interview with the Federal
Council."
A Toronto letter says :—" Our fall weather has
been beautiful. The leaves of ithe trees are beginning to
darken, however, and slight frosts for some nights past in-
dicate the approach of winter. Further north there has
been a heavy shower of snow, and in the course of a few
weeks we shall have a visit from this northern product
also. Cold weather, however, does not come in dullest till
January or February.”
SAVING LIFE ON THE EAST COAST.—The National
Lifeboat Institution has, during the present month, paid
£l2O to the crews of some of its lifeboats on the Norfolk
and Suffolk coasts, for saving 48 persons from the following
vessels :—Four men from the schooner Fly of Whitby ;
ten men from the smack A dventnre, of Harwich ; five men
from the brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ; seven men from
the pilot cutter Whim ; eleven men from the lugger Saucy
Pass; and eleven men from the brig Undaunted, of Aber-
.uecii.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Ammale left Orleans House, Twickenham, yesterday for
~fatfleld, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury.
The Earl and Countess of Derby are entertaining
a Succession of visitors at Knowsley Park, Lancashire.
The Countess of Fife arrived in town a few days
since from Scotland. The earl is expected early next week.
sia'lordship has taken a house in Grosvenor-place, late the
residence of Lord Lilford.
It is said that the executors of the late Royal
Academician, Turner, aro in possession of unpublished.
otters and papers which illustrate in a new way altogether
the details of Turner's life.
°PENING OF TUE CLEVELAND RAILWAY.--011
Saturday the new line of railway from the Tees to Skelton
•
Cleveland was opened for traffic. The line is connected
and with North Yorkshire or Cleveland system of railways,
s
made to open out a rich agricultural district,
to
, develops the great mineral resources of the bills
lying along its course. We believe it is ultimately intended
to carry the line to Skiimingrove, a few ;piles beyond.