The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

THE PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mule prem..
and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling.
On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
175.100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices frum Hamburg the price of gold is 4261 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13s. 6d. 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' sight is 108 f to 109 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 no profit on the transmission of gold to the
United States.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.

FEBRUARY.

Lincoln

MARCH.

Nottingham S
Derby Spring

I Liverpool S ll
Shrewsbury S ......
'RIL.

Northampton
Croxton Park..
Epsom Spring
Ponceland

Newmarket C 2l
Catterick oridge
Thirsk 29

Newmarket F S 5
Chester Spring
York Spring

Salisbury
Bath
Harpenden 3O
r NE.

Epsom Summer 3
Chelmsford ll
Manchester

1 Ascot
Newcastle ...... ...... 24
Hampton
:MBER.

NOTE:

Worcester
Hereford

Liverpool ... l2
Shrewsbury

His Excellency Lieut.-General Baron Moltke,
Lieutenant-Colonel on Obernitz. the Count Furstenstein,
and Captain von Leucedon, have left Maurigy's Hotel, for
Berlin.

Mr. and Lady Mary Craven are passing the
season at Melton Mowbray.

Secretary Sir George Grey left town yesterday
for Highworth.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London
yesterday for Hawarden Castle, Chester.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hon.
R. Bruce (Governor) and Captain Grey (Equerry in Wait-
ing) embarked from the docks at 1 o'clock to-day, in the
the Royal yacht Fairy, Commander Christian, for Osborne.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke de Brabant and the
Count de Flandres, attended by Count de Lannoy and
Major Burnell, accompanied the Prince of Wales. Colonel
Francis Seymour, C. 8., came over from Osborne to receive
the Royal party. The three Princes were received, on their
arrival, by Mr. P. Hedger and Mr. J. Levy, principal offi-
cers of the Dock Company, and Mr. R. Beach was also in
attendance on the part of the South-Western Railway
Company. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ap-
peared very careworn, and suffering severely. The Belgian
Princes, on arrival at Osborne, will take leave of her Ma-.
josty, and leave immediately for Belgium.
THE FUNERAL OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.—Allu-
sion was made yesterday to the manner in which the day of
the Prince Consort's funeral was kept in the chief towns of
England. It was observed with no less solemnity in places
of minor importance. A special service was performed at
Canterbury, in the cathedral, which was attended by the
Mayor and Corporation and a great assemblage of the citi-
zens. The sermon was preached by Dean Alford. At Lin-
coln the rifle volunteers went in procession to hear service
in St. Peter's Church, and muffled peals were tolled from
the cathedral towers. The Mayor and Town-council of Nor-
wich, attended by the volunteer corps connected with the
city, the Norfolk mounted corps, and a part of the Yarmouth
artillery, marched in procession to the cathedral, where an
impressive discourse was preached 1)3 the bishop of the dio-
cese. At Llandaff the cathedral was crowded, volunteers
being present to the number of 600. An appropriate dis-
course was there also preached by the bishop. The service in
the Cathedral at Rochester was very impressive. At Chat-
, ham and Woolwich, in accordance with Admiralty orders,
minute guns were fired during the afternoon ; but in con-
sequence of the necessity of hastening preparations for war
the workmen in the dockyat ds had no holyday. No minute
guns were fired at Southampton and Portsmouth in conse-
quence of orders that there should be no discharge of large
ordnance within hearing of her Majesty at Osborne. At
Edinburgh all business was suspended during the hours of
the funeral, and prayer meetings were held in the churches-
The Royal standard at the Castle hung half-mast high, and
60 minute guns were fired from the batteries. Nearly all
the literary, academical, medical, legal, mercantile, eccle-
siastical, and municipa. bodies in the city have held or have
called meetings for the purpose of preparing addresses of
condolence to her Majesty. Several county meetings have
been called for the same object. In the other Scotch towns
the day of the funeral was observed in a similar manner.
The city council of Manchester and the town council of
Nottingham yesterday voted addresses of condolence to her
Majesty.

FALL OF A HOUSE.—Yesterday morning, about
3 o'clock, a sad calamity happened at Nelson-court, a
wretched place leading out of the High-street, Poplar, in
which there are several dilapidated houses. One of these
w.is occupied by a poor labourer, named Richard Cogan,
aged GO, his wife Margar, t, 58, and their two daughters,
Mary Ann, aged 12, and Ellen, aged 11 years. They slept on
one bed, the parents at the top and their children at the
bottom. The family went to bed soon after 11 o'clock last
night; at 3 o'clock a loud crash was heard, and the neigh-
bours on repairing to the spot, found the house a shapeless
mass of ruins. A wild scene of excitement followed among
the Irish who live in the court. In a short time Inspec-
tor Beare, of the K division, and a numerous body
of policemen arrived on the spot, and soon cleared
away the rubbish. Cogan and his wife were found
quite dead. They appeared to have been killed in bed
and while asleep. The eldest daughter was brought out of
the ruins in a dying state. Inspector Beare and his men,
with the greatest alacrity, made her fast to a stretcher, on
which she was conveyed to the Poplar Hospital. Or. her
arrival there, however, the medical officers of the institu-
tion pronounced her to be dead. The youngest daughter,
Ellen, whose escape was miraculous, although severely in-
jured, was doing well yesterday evening. The calamity is
attributable to the falling of an old wall against the house,
hich was a kind of "lean-to," quite unfit for the habita-
tion of human beings. In fact, the sad catastrophe was
long since anticipated, and the building ought to have beer.
long since removed. It belonged to a person residing in
Hackney, who drew a rental of Is. per week from the
Cogans. There are plenty of similar tenements in tho
neighbourhood of Poplar.
THE CASE OF PARRICIDE AT BIRMINGIIAM.—At
the Public-office at Birmingham, yesterday, before Mr.
Kynnersley, James Millward was brought up on the charge
of shooting his father, as already described in The Stcia.
The evidence adduced was much the same as at the inquest.
The prisoner was committed for trial on a charge of man-
slaughter.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—TLe North German

Lloyd's screw steamer\Bremen, Crpt. H. Wessels, arrived

this morning from Bremen, and sails hence for New York
on Christmas day, with mails, passengers, and a full gene-

ral cat go.
ANOTHER FATAL CRINOLINE ACClDENT.—Yes-
terday attetnoon Mr. Rallies Waithew, the deputy-coroner,
held on inquest at the London Hospital, respecting the
death of Sarah Williams, aged 31 years, the wife of a
tailor's eratQr, in the service of Messrs. Moses and Com-
pany, wholesale clothiers, of Cannon-street East, City. On
Saturday evening last the deceased, while in the act of
reaching a piece of paper which was behind a picture hang-
ing over the mantelpiece, her dress ignited, and she im-
mediately became enveloped in flames. She ran screaming
down the staircase and was followed by a lodger, when the
flames were with difficulty extinguished, but not until her
body and limbs were fearfully blackened and chaired.
She was placed in a cab and removed ,o the hospital, where
she shortly afterwards expired. The deceased had on at
the time of the sad occurrence a very large crinoline petti-
coat. The deputy-coroner remarked on the dangerous
practice of such decorations, when the jury returned a
yerclict of " Accido;lo4 Oath,"