The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-15 00:00:00

THE PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mine prem.,
and the short exchange on London is 25.32 per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 5-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4270 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is tosi to 106 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
rate leaves little, if any, profit on sending gold to the United
States.

A BOY SHOT IN THE REGENT'-PARK.—Yester-
day morning, shortly after 7 o'clock, the 29th, or North
Middlesex Rifles, were assembled to the number of about
300 in the centre of Regent's-park, for the purpose of blank
cartridge firing and battalion drill. The corps had formed
square to receive cavalry, and, in obedience to orders, fired
a volley. At this moment a youth, 15 years of age, named
Thomas Dutton, residing at 12, Suffolk-place, Manning-
street, Marylebone, was observed to stagger and fall. Blood
was seen streaming copiously down his face and neck, and
he was instantlyremoved under direction of Mr. H. Sutherin,
one of the surgeons of the regiment, who was on duty. He
had sustained a contused and lacerated wound immediately
above the left ear, which had laid the skull bare to the bone,
and which left no doubt but that he must have been within
three or four feet from the muzzle of one of the rifles when
it was fire& It appears that Dutton, upon his own state-
ment, was in the habit of ascertaining when rifle corps fired
in the parks and running in to pick up the exploded percus-
sion caps, for which he obtained at the rate of 9d. to Is.
per lb. Dutton was removed to the University College
Hospital, where he was placed under the care of Mr.
Andrews. It is the opinion of both gentlemen that had the
wound been another inch more forward towards the temple
death would have been instantaneous.
Zeo,auo has Loot. Pahl in to the Ottoman Bank
at Constantinople on account of the dividend fund under
the new arrangement for the Turkish loan of 1858.
Ia the case of Willington v. Willington and
Dalrymple, reported in the Divoree Court yesterday, the
judge at the conclusion of the evidence, granted a rule nisi
for dissolution of marriage.
THE MURDER IN SURREY.--An inquest was
opened at the Red Lion,Kingswood, on the body of Martha
Halliday. No new facts were disclosed. The jury was
adjourned for a week.
A WOMAN CHARGED WITH POISONING HER
HUSBAND.--A woman living in a cottage in the valley of
Cly Hwr, Llandissil, Cardiganshire, who married in De-
cember last, has poisoned her husband with phosphoric
powder, commonly used to destroy rats. An investigation
has taken place, which has resulted in her committal on a
charge of wilful murder.
ROBBERY BY A POLE.---This morning Joseph
Benet, a Pole, was charged at the Marlborough-street Police
Court with stealing 17 handkerchiefs from the shop cf Messrs.
Sandilands, Regent-street. The prisoner secreted the
property on his person, whiie he was engaged making a
purchase. A number of silk scarves supposed to have been
stolen from some other shop were also found upon him.
He was remanded for a week.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND Loss OF LlFE.—Yes-
terday (Friday) evening a serious fire occurred, unfortu-
nately with fatal consequences to a young woman, in the
premises of Mr. Alex. Keene, known as the Three Tuns
Tavern, No. 2, Moor-street, Soho. The flames commenced
in the back bar from an escape of gas, it is believed, and
owing to the quantity of spirits in the place, the flames ex-
tended with unusual swiftness, and in the course of a few
minutes the fire had taken possession of the whole of the
staircase, and had entered every room at the back of the
establishment. The engines of Soho parish and six belong-
ing to the London Brigade were soon in attendance. A
plentiful supply of Ns ater having been obtained, the engines
were called into operation, but as the firemen were working
on the staircase it gave way, and the men were precipitated
some distance below. Fortunately they were not much in-
jured, but a poor young woman, named Ann Brown, who
acted as cook, was terribly burnt, and was taken to the hos- ,
pital, where she soon expired.
From information that we have received this
morning, we have reason to believe it most probable that
Professor Ellicott will reconsider his determination not to
accept the Deanery of Exeter. We believe that he has
been requested to do so on the highest authority, on
the understanding that an opportunity will be afforded him
for undertaking duties connected with theological teaching,
for which he is so eminently qualified. We trust this may
be the case. The statement in some of the papers that the
cause of the Professor's refusal was the insufficiency of the
income is, we need hardly say, utterly unfounded, though
one can well understand a man of his active habits object-
ing to merge into t,hp onraparative retirement of a Deanery.
John Bull, June 15.
We lately announced the appointment of Sir
Frederick Nicolson, Bart., to the post of Conservator of
the River Thames. There is an old adage which, we think,
applies to Sir Frederick—" It never rains but it pours."
This very fortunate officer has been selected by the First
Lord of the Admiralty to succeed Captain the Hon. J. R.
Drummond at Woolwich as Commodore •Superintendent.
The salary, according to a parliamentary paper now before
us, attached to the office is £1,182 10s. There is a very
excellent house fitted up as a residence for the Commodore;
and, on the whole, a more desirable post for a young officer
desirous of living near London could not well be desired.—
Army and J%ravy Gazette.

"Pa, can a person catch anything if he don't run
after it ?" " Certainly not." " Well, then, how did you
catch the cold you've got ?" Paterfamilias hits hopeful a
rap over the knuckles, and grunts, "There, sir, you caught
that without a run for it."

Ha that opposes his own judgment against the
consent of the times, ought to be backed with unalterable
truths ; and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a
coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the currency or
multitude of other men's opinion.
How can fire persons divide five eggs, so that
each man shall receive one, and still one remain in the
dish ? One takes the dish with the egg.

It is a bad sign to see a man With his hat off at
midnight, explaining the theory and principles of true
' democracy to a lamp-post.
" If there is anything I hate, it is a woman with
a lap-dog! I always want to drown it, and put a baby in
the place," says cruel Fanny Fern, forgetting that too
often the lap-dog owners feel the sturAe Way, but take the
dog because they can't have the, baby. Shouldn't be hard
on the sex;
77" bii,eause you've done a little something
for yuur country.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at tb::s la capital during the
ivcsa Jllll9 1415 2,5054 of witicla 771 were net mom

BANK OF FIANCE.

The following is the account for the month end-
ing Thursday, June 13:—

ASSETS. r. 0
Cash and ingots .. .. .. 99,425,274 41
Cash at the branch-banks .. .. .. 313,033,415
Bills due to be paid to-day..
Bills becoming due in Paris, of which
57,612,511 f. 92c. are from the branch-
banks .. • . .. .. 233,648,799 14
Bills in the branch-banks .. .. .. 264,072,664
Advances on coin and ingots .. .. 38,627,479 62
Do. in the branch-banks
.. • • 8,337.000
Do. on French securities
.. .. 18,633,500
Do. in the branch-banks 11 041 600
Do. on railway shares and bonds .. 34,191,925
Do. in the branch-banks .. 20,279,300
Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds ..
566,800
• •
Do. in the branch-banks 183,300
•• • •
Do. to State by treaty, 1848 .. .. 35,000,000
Rentes of the reserve-fund • • .. 12,980,750 14
Rentes, disposable funds .. .. • 53,708,828 13,
Rentes immobilised (law of June, 1857) .: 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the Bank .. .. 4,000,000
Real property of branch-banks .. • . 5,940,857
Expenses of administration .. .. 2,011,183 11
Sundries .. • . • • • . .. 19,672,116 69

1,275,921,383 1T
LIABILITIES.

Capital . • .. 91,250,000
New Capital .. • . 91,250,000
Reserve•fund 12,980,750 14
New Reserve 9 125 000
Reserve-immobiliere 4,000,000
Profits to be added to Capital (Art. 8 of
law June 9, 1857) 2,255,347 32
Notes to bearer in circulation in Paris and
the branch-banks 713,381,725
Do. to order (Post-bills) 6,047,6•59 55
Bills payable at sight .. • • .. 9,657,134
Acc. cur. of Treasury Creditor .. 124,593,833 96
Various accounts current .. .. 156,051,856 16
Do. branch-banks 30,722,374
Dividends to be paid 642,511 75
Arrears of values deposited .. .. 1,983,185 57
Discount, interest, and expenses 15,954,927 50
Re-discounts of the last half-year 1,820,678 65
Sundries .. 4,204,399 57

1,275,921,383 1

1 7'HE FORTHCOMING INTERNATIONAL
3 EXHIBITION.

2 The following regulations for the guidance of
2 the officers of her Majesty's Customs in London and
35 at the outports, and for the information of impor-
-2 ters and their agents, upon the importation of
goods intended for the International Exhibition
of Works of Industry and Art, to be held in London
in 1862, have been issued :-
1. All packages containing goods intended for the
International Exhibition of 1862 shalt be specially
reported as such, and shall be addrcAsed to the
Commissioners of the International Exhibition, or
to one of their officers, and be consigned to a duly
accredited agent, and shall be accompanied with
specification of their contents and value. They
shall be separately entered as intended for the Inter-
national Exhibition, and the agents in passing their
entries shall specify the full contents of the packages
together with the value.
2. Such packages as may be landed in London
shall be forwarded unopened to the Exhibition in
charge of an approved licensed carman, acrJompa-
nied by a cart note from the landing officer, giving
a description of the packages .and the marks and
numbers thereon ; and in cases where there may be
reason to suppose they contain other goods than
those for the Exhibiti m they shall also be accom-
panied by a revenue officer.
3. Packages landed at the out-ports shall be for-
warded with a similar note by railway or other
public conveyance, under seals of office, direct to,
the exhibition, the officers at the respective ports
taking care that the packages bear no private
address, and that the documents relating thereto be
immediately forwarded to the proper officers of her
Majesty's Customs stationed at the Exhibition.
4. On the arrival of the goods at the Exhibition
no package shall be opened without the knowledge
and consent of the officers of Customs, and if the
goods be found to agree with the entry or specifi-
cation, they will, if free, be at once considered as
out of charge of the Customs, the entry or declara-
tion being deemed sufficient for all statistical pur-
poses. _

5. In the case of all dutiable goods, an account
will be taken by the officers of the crown at the
time of the first opening of the packages, but such
deficiencies as may occur within the building from
any legitimate or unavoidable cause, the officers
being fully satisfied thereof, shall not be charged
with duty.
6. That the building be considered for all practi-
cal purposes, a " bonded warehouse," and that in all
cases where dutiable goods shall not be exported
but retained for use in this country, the duty shall
be assessed by the officer in charge at the building
(and received in the Exhibition by a clerk duly
appointed for the purpose), in accordance with the
practice now existing in regard to articles found in
passengers' baggage."
7. In the case of dutiable goods for exportation,
an entry shall be passed in the long room and bond
given for their due .../..ricalun, and ;on the receipt
or this entry by the officer in charge of the build-
ing, the goods shall be packed in his presence, and
if for shipment at an out-port, placed under seal,
and forwarded in charge to a railway or other pub-
lic company; but if for shipment at this port, they
shall then be sent in charge of Customs officers at
the expense of the exporter, to be delivered into the
charge of the searcher of the station from which
they are to be shipped, without further examina-
tion, under the regulations applicable to goods
shipped direct from the warehouse.

CHARGE OF MISAPPROPRIATING
TEN THOUSAND POUNDS.

On Thursday and yesterday the County Court
judge at Liverpool (W. A. Hulton,' Esq.) was occu-
pied with hearing evidence in support of a petition,
charging the president, secretary, treasurer, and
several committee men and collectors of the Liverpool
Burial Society with publishing false balance-sheets,
g
cooking accounts in various ways) and with havin
knowingly conspired to defraud the society
of
sums of money amounting in the aggregate to
£lO,OOO since Jan. 1, 1855. The petition stated
that the members of the committee had appropriated
£4 per week as remuneration, the treasurer £8 per
week, and the secretary (Lawrence) £l6 lOs. per
week, and that these appropriations had been made
(from small amounts granted at first) without any
legal sanction of general meetings of the society. The
printing business for the society was &scribed as a
cloak r similar jobbery. The petition concluded by
praying that the officials should be made to account
for the moneys received since January, 1855 ; re-
fund all amounts beyond those to which they were
properly entitled ; and to pay their own and the
costs of this case.

After some time had been occupied by a discus-
sion upon a proposal for a reference, Mr. Deighton
(barrister), who appeared for some of the defen-
dants, urged several technical objections with a
view to invalidate the petition ; but after Mr.
Roby, for the petitioner, had been heard, the court
decided that the petitioner seaman named
Draper) clearly was one of the '• parties interested,''
who alone could institute such proceedings.
Mr. Roby (solicitor) was then heard at length
in support of the petition, the evidence being post-
poned until yesterday. Yesterday,' however, was
occupied again almost entirely with arguments
upon technical and legal points, and ultimately the
case was adjourned to N0v.12.