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

THE PAIGE 07 GOLD

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille prem.,
and the short exchange on London is 25.21 per sterling.
(111, Comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
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▪ 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
31t about the same puke in London and in Paris.
115' advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
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The course of exchange atNew York on London for bills at
80 days' sight 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 cthe trees are beginning to
(larire however, and slight frosts for some nights past in-
ctioate the approach of winter. Further north there bas
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 earnest till
January
or February."
SAVING LIFE ON THE EAST COAST.—The National
Lifeboat Institution has, during the present month, paid
4120't0 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 dvent'ire, of Harwich ; five men
from the brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk ; seven men from
the pilot cutter Whim; eleven men from the lugger Saucy
Lags;
and eleven men from the brig Undaunted, of Aber-
deen.
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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Aarnale left Orleans House, Twickenham, yesterday for
j'ataeld, 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.
-ilia lordship has taken a house in Grosvenor-place, late the
residence of Lord Lilford.
°PENING OF THE CLEVELAND RAILWAY.— On
Saturday the new line of railway from the Tees to Skelton
in Cleveland was opened for traffic. The line is connected
with. the North Yorkshire or Cleveland system of railways,
and has been made to open out a rich agricultural district,
and to develops the great mineral resources of the hills
3thig along its course. We believe it is ultimately intended
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