The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-26 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

quotaii in of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 251. Mo. per £1 'sterling.
On cowering these rates with the English Mint price of
x‘i is. toad. per ounce for standard gold, it appe..rs tllai
gold is about the same prlee in London and Paris.
The (0 Inge of exchange at INew York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight was on the last date about 1 91 percent.
At this rate There is no profit on the importation of gold
rom the Untied States.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via .‘iouthampton ..... Doc. 5.
Ditto, via Y irseilles . ..... ....Nov 30
Ditto, via Pia.ama ....... .... • • • ........ ...Nov 28.
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video •
Dec. 4.
Ditto, by French packet Dec. 22.
Cape Verds, by Brazil paoket ...... , Dec. 4.
Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena. Do. 13.
China, renting, and Singapore, via Southampton Dcc. 5.
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Nov 23
India, via Southampton

unto, via MarseiLes
Malta, Egypt, &a Dec. 4.
Ditto, Marseilles... Nov. 23
Mauritius, Cape of Good lope, and Natal, via
Scuthamitou
Ditto, 31arseil►es Dec. 13.
Newfoundland ...... •• ••
Portugal ....
United States, anada, California, &a, by British
packet ......N0v 23
Ditto, by Canadian packet . Nov 27
Ditto, by L lilted States packet
Ditto dittt (Baltimore) ..
West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha-
mas) Nov 23
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dec. 4
Falkland Islands

Cuba and Mexico

Bahamas, via New York
Bermuda. via Halifax .... .......

Dec. 2.
. Dee. It 3.

When Dr. 111.‘Cosh closed his speech at Prince-
ton College the boys responded with three cheers, the
usual tiger, and a "rocket." This rocket is a thoroughly
Princeton institution, and is given with a f-z-z-z —boom—
a—h! The first exclamation is supposed to imitate the
flight of a rocket in the air, the second the explosion, and
the third the admiring exclamations of the enthusiastic(
spectators as they witness the burst of coloured fire.

Raphael Semmes will shortly again appear on the
scene, in a work elaborated from the logs of the Sumter
and the Alabama. The work will be entitled " The Cruises
of the Sumter and Alabama," Kelly, Piet, and Co., of Bal-
timore, being the publishers. The taste of these coming
out in the face of his indignant countrymen is, to say tha
east, questionable on the part of Captain Semmes. But,
to make the work perfect, portraits of himself and Laird
ought to be given.

Three hundred young men are now in attend-
ance at Cornell University. Some of them have scars
from the battle-field. Tho University has a promising
future. The building is rapidly approaching completion.

It has been decided in a Wisconsin Court that
the imposition of a tax upon non-residents selling goods
by sample in the State is contrary to the Constitution of
the United States.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is at
length going to form its School of Architecture. Mr. Ware,
who is to bo the head of this department, has recently made
a tour through England and the Continent, studying diffe-
rent systems, making a collection of models, ctc.
Governor Burnside dined $200,000,000 the other
day, in the persons of Stewart, Astor, Grinnell, and other
wealthy New Yorkers. On their way back to New York
the train ran off the track, when, we learn from the Pro-
vidence Press, " with a little of that energy and determi-
nation which has secured for most of them their present
distinguished positions iu society, they walked over the
bridge."

Mr. Edwin A. Pollard is well qualified to do what
he proposes—write a life of Jefferson Davis. While
strongly Southern in sentiment, we believe Mr. Pollard
attributes the overthrow of the Confederacy to Mr. Davis,
and promises to lay bare the secret history of the Rich-
-14911d GOYernment.