The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 2M. 15c. per Al sterling.
un emnparing these rate■ with the English Mint price of
lis. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
gold is about one-tenth dearer in Perim than in London.
The oourse of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 109; per cent. At this rate there
is no profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.—Sir R. Napier
writes to the Secretary of State for India that he has been
reluctantly compelled to allow Dr. Krapf, who was en-
gaged as Amharic dragoman, to quit the expedition, as he
has lost his health in the performance of his duties, and
has been recommended by his medical attendant to pro-
ceed immediately to Europe. Sir R. Napier speaks very
warmly of Krapf's services, and says it will be difficult to
supply his place.

THE mEmBERs FOR OLDHAM ON CO-OPERATION.—.
On Saturday night the members for Oldham, Messrs.
J. T. Hibbert and J. Platt, attended a meeting at
Shaw, on the occasion of the opening of a new central
store for the Crompton Co-operative Society. Mr.
Hibbert said he cordially sympathised with societies
of that nature, which were based on the principle
of self-help. Neither Mr. Platt nor himself came
there with the desire of supporting the co-
operators in antagonism to the retail shopkeepers
He thought that if the retail traders were to exist
satisfactorily and successfully, they must take one or
two leaves out of the books of the co-operators. One
of these leaves was the system of ready money pay_
meats, to which he believed they would have to come.
He thought these societies were a great means of in-
creasing the provident habits of the people, and he
could not believe • that there ever was much crime,
pauperism, or drunkenness amongst co-operators.
He was glad to find that in all large societies of
that kind, not merely was attention paid to the
material wants of the members, but a certain amount
was set apart for a library and reading-room ; and he
regarded this as one of the best features of these insti-
tutions. These, societies, however, appeared to be
merely the first step in co-operation. There was
another step which they had not yet taken ad-
vantage of—that of production. Stores seem to have
s teceeded in England ; societies of credit best in
Germany ; and those of production best in France.
But there was no doubt we were destined in this
country to see working men uniting for mnay other
objects than those now in existence (hear). It must,
however, always be borne in mind that if we were
to succeed in retaining out. prestige as a manu-
facturing country they would have to avoid as far
as possible anything which interfered with the
proper relation of capital and labour. With this
view we had a duty to perform in the matter of edu-
cation, and he thought we should be obliged to come
to some system in which a little compulsion would
be employed, as was the case with the Factory,
Acts (hear, hear).—Mr. Platt observed that co-opera-
tion was the rival of the retail dealer, but it was only
such a rival as every trade and society in the kingdom
met with, and it was a question whether rivalry did
not produce the best results. He looked upqn these
§Pottit YgY u§eful. •

PREFERENCE SRA.RES.
Great Western, Orig. 43/4 per cent.. 774
NJrth Eastern, York, U. and Selby purchase, 10i

LIVES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Chester and Holyhead,
Ditto, 5y pa. cent., 119
Ditto, 5 per cent 112;
London and Blackwall, 87
Nottingham and Grantham R. and C, 02!

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco, gua. 7_per cent., 15
Dutch Rhenish, 211
Namur and Liege, g-ua. 6 per cent. pl., 201
South Austrian ead Lombardo Venetian, 14}

FOILEIGN MINIM

Cape Copper, 9;
oon ream, North Del Rey, 2k
Linarei, Ilm., I;
Part Phillip, 1 7-16
Scottish Australian, llin.. 1
St. John. del Key, lira, 17a

BANES.

Agra, lim., A, 11
Alliance, Btu., 11 IN
Anglo Egyptian, lim., 19
Australasia, 62
City, ►2l
Consolidated, lirn., 4,1
N:nt►ish, Sco►ch, and Australian Chartered, 17
Imperial Ottoman, Oi
Latin Mortgage Bunt( of India, lim., 1
London and %s estminster, 62
Oriental Bank Corporation, 42}
Union of Australia, 50

NIISCRLL A NXOUB.
Anglo American' elegrap 21i 2;
Atlantic Telegraph, 54k 5

. .
S per sent., 1/5
.7f
City Discount, lirn, 21
Credit Foncier ot lalntrland, lim., 3 1-16
Credit Fonder of Mauritius, liza.,
Crystal Palace.

Ditto, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 108 i 7
Ebbw Vale, 124
Eyyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 1 3-16
Fore-street Warehouse, lim., it
Hudson's Bay. 144
Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by
Government), 1031
Peninsula and Oriental steam, 571
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements. IQ I
Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, lim., 141
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., 41
Viceroy of Egypt (mortgage) Loan) 7,3

THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A BOY BY

BURNING.

This afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, Mr.
William Payne, the coroner for London and South-
wark, resumed, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the
adjourned inquiry respecting the death of a child
named John Hunt, aged 4 years, who, it was al-
leged, had been wilfully burned or scalded to death.
Mr. Horsford, the house-surgeon, said that he
had, since the jury last met, mane a further exami-
nation of the body, and also the clothes. The
saucepan now produced, if full of water, and it had
fallen over the child, might have produced the inju-
ries on the body. The hands and arms of the child
were not scalded at all, but the lower part of
the frame was as high as the navel.
If the child bad been pushed into the boiler and
had sat in the hot water it would produce the ap-
pearances he found on the body. lie did not think
that the child could have fallen on its face and up-
set the saucepan without scalding its hands and
arms. If the child had sat in the water it would
have been only instantaneous.

Mrs. Newefl was positive that the child was acci-
dentally scalded by its falling into the water, which
was boiling hot.

Mary Duncannon said that she was sent for, and
found the deceased scalded. It died in the hospital.
Mrs. Newell said that the child had fallen over
the washing-stool into the saucepan of water. She
always appeared kind to the deceased.
After some other evidence, the jury returned a
verdict of manslaughter against the female Ne well.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a young
man, about 18 years of age, a porter in the employ of
Messrs. Bell and Daldy, booksellers, of York-street
Covent-garden, was shaking the carpets on the roof of thu
house, which is about 40 feet from the ground, whon ho
overbalanced himself and foil into the back yard. A. undi-
cal man lytko bent for, but lift was extinct.