The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On
,omparing these rates with the English Mint price of
.s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appo..ra that gold is
about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in Loudon.

rhe course of exchange at New York on London tor bile a
8) days' eight is about 1081 per cent. At this rate there is
no profit on the importatio.i of gold from the United atates

RUN OVER AND KILLED.—An inquiry was held
by Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner, last evening at Guy's
Hospital, touching the death of William Wisdom, aged 89
The deceased was a warehouseman, and last Saturday
evening, at 8 o'clock, ho was crossing the road at East-
cheap, to get into a Camberwell omnibus, when he slipped
and fell under the wheels of a laundress's van, which passed
over his body. He was instantly picked up and carried to
the hospital, where he died. At the time of the occur-
rence he was accompanied by his son, aged 11, who stated
that his father was in a hurry to catch the omnibus, but
when he found he was fulling, and could not save himself,
he pushed his son out of the way of the van and thus
saved his life. The boy is now very ill from the fright.
Mr. Stephen Bushell, house surgeon, said that the deceased
expired at 12 o'clock on Saturday night from the injuries
he had sustained. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."

MISSING SHIPS. —The Queen, which sailed from
Liverpool on the 16th of October for New York ; the Ha
rier, from Bristol for St. Michael's, which sailed from Lund;
Roads on the 24th of December; and the Tally-B-0, which
shipped from St. Michael's on the 16th of January, and
ought to have returned, have not since been heard of.
EASTER TERM.—Tbe arrears in the common law
courts for Easter Term, commencing on Monday next,
have just been exhibited. In the Queen's Bench they
number 116 ; in the Common Pleas 49, and in the Exche-
quer 79, making in the three courts 241. Of new trials in
the Queen's Bench there are 35, of which 31 are for argu-
ment and one for judgment. In the Common Pleas there
are 15 rules for argument in the new trial list, and in the
Exchequer two for judgment and 14 for argument. In
the special paper of the Queen's Bench there are 72 for
argument, and in the Exchequer 10 for argument. Of
enlarged rules, there are nine in the Queen's Bench, five
in the Common Pleas, and in the peremptory paper, four
in the Exchequer. In the Common Pleas, there is one
postponed motion, and four cases standing over for the
lodgment of the court, and in the Exchequer, in the list
of errors and appeals, there are three for judgment and six
for argument. As the Lord Chancellor will receive the
judges on the first day of the Term, the Chancery and
cowmen law courts will not 6.it before two o'cloQ4.

• ~,Erin.itEiv;:i+. rlLArcn..•
Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock. 1,3
Great Eastern, E. Anglian, A stock 5 per cent.. 86
North Eastern. York, 11. and Selby purchase, -
Stockton and Darlington B, 6 per cent., 3t I
EURICI GN ttAIL WA at.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81
Liam. ...no oau P'rauciaco, gua. 7- per cent., 141
Gieat Luxemtmum. Si 9
South ;ovarian and Lombardo Venetian, 16
Wtst Flanders, 8
BANK

Alliatuce. 141 •
Bank of Egypt, 31
Chartered 'tee. of India, London, and China, 31 301
Colonial 30 5}
'Consolidated Bank, Urn.. 4
linperial Ottoman. lirn.. 71
Loudon and Couuty, 67 6
Loudon and h% eattninster,,93i
Midland Bank, Bin., IFI
New South Wales, 451
rrovtneial Banking Corporation, Bm.,
Unio of Australia, 47 ti

111.1SCELLANIGO Üb.
Anglo-American Telegrapa, 17
ALI-tutle lelegrapu,—
Lit
o, 8 per cunt, 80 774
Cit offices, lira., 51
Oredit e meter oi 6noand. lim . 2i
Gen. Credit and Discount, inn., 41
tiudson's 13ay, Iti
London sentrai Omnibus Company, lim, 3
Lon ot, and Provincial Marine, It
uiscount ompany, 11.1
MU de Janeiro City Improvements, 20
Royal M ,11 Steam. 94 3
Te.e,rapn Cowan°. and Maintem, lira.,
t 24

UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

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There must be no writing, or other marks upon such
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Any other writing, &c., will render the packeteliable to
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Cential Criminal Court—(this Day).

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE JAMAICA PROSECUTION.

THE INDICTMENT IGNORED.

This morning the witnesses to support the indict-
ment preferred against Col. Nelson and Lieut.
Brand for the wilful murder of W. J. Gordon were
examined before the grand jury. The inquiry
occupied about two hours, and the result was that
the grand jury ignored the bill of indictment.
The grand jury some time after attended in
Court, and handed in the bills of indictment in the
cases disposed of, when

The Clerk- of the Arraigns read them in the
ordinary manner, the fait being the." Bill against
Colone Nelson and Lieutenant Brand for wilful
murder not found."

The announcement was received with a manifes-
tation of applause, but the ebullition of feeling was
quickly suppressed by the Sheriff.

The result of the inquiry caused the greatest
excitement within and without the three courts
sitting for the despatch of business, the congratu-
latory party being considerably in the majority.

The efforts of the Jamaica Committee have thus
ended in a total and complete failure.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Channel].)

Charles Anderson, remanded from last session on a
charge of wilful murder on the high seas, was placed in
the dock.

The surgeon of Newgate stated that when the prisoner
first came to Newgate he answered certain questions in a
very rational manner, but after a while he became silent,
and refused to answer any question, and 'he had preserved
silence ever since. He, -however, conducted himself the
same as other prisoners with respect to exercise.

Baron Channell asked whether he thought he was
silent through malice, or silent through the visitation of
God.

Mr. Gibson said he could not answer the question with
any certainty. Ile thought, however, he understood what
was going on.
The learned Judge told the jury it was a question for
them as to the cause of the prisoner's refusal to plead.
The foreman said it was the opinion of the jury that the
prisoner was silent through malice.
The prisoner was thereupon again called on to plead, but
he remained silent, and a plea of not guilty was accord-
ingly entered for him.
The learned gentleman who appeared to defend the pri-
soner elected to have the case tried by a jury of English-

men.
Tho prisoner was then removed from the dock.
CHARGE OF MURDER.
James Conde and Mary Conde, his wife, were indicted
for the wilful murder of William Conde. Both prisoners
pleaded not guilty.
The witnesses nut being in attendance, the case was
postponed.

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A " CHRISTY'S MINSTREL.”—Wm. Hayes, a
tall, gentlemanly-looking young man, who gave the ad-
dress No. 343, Strand, was charged before Mr. Knox with
stealing an overcoat of the value of £lO, the property of
Mr. Henry T. Mudge, one of the Christy's Minstrels. There
was a second charge against the prisoner.
Mr. Mudge said he resided at the Crown Hotel, Rupert-
street, and on Tuesday afternoon last he was lying down
in his room, taking a little rest. He was awoke by the
prisoner, who asked him the address of a person. He told
the prisoner that he would get it for him the next day, and
the prisoner remarked that he (Mr. Mudge) appeared
sleepy, and that he would leave, and did so, taking his(Mr.
Mudge's) overcoat, of the value of £lO, with him.
Police-constable Butcher, 187 0, said that on taking the
prisoner into custody, and telling him the charge, he at
first denied all knowledge of the coat, but afterwards said
that he pledged it for 10s., but did not know where.
Police-constable Dawson, 301 A, said there was a second
charge ready to be preferred against the prisoner.
Mr. Constant Vanden Brouck, of Argyle-street, Regent-
street, said he was dining at the Now York Hotel,
Leicester-square, yesterday evening, and left his overcoat
in the coffee-room, from which place it was taken.
Dawson said that when the prisoner was brought to the
Vine-street station by Butcher, he challenged him with
stealing the coat of Mr. Vanden Brouck, and at first he
denied it, but afterwards he said that he. was at the New
York Hotel yesterday, and that it was no use attempting
to deceive him (Dawson), as he did take the coast, and that
he had pledged it for 10s. in Wardour-street. He also
said that he did not know what possessed him to do it, and
that no one knew what he he had gone through during
the past few days. _

The coat baying been produced by a pawnbroker's as-
sistant, Mr, Knox remanded the prisoner, who seemed iu
a very desponding state of mind.

WESTMINSTER.

A SWISS ATTEMPTING SUICIDE.— Gofred Ruhlin, a na-
tive of Zurich, Switzerland, was charged with attempting
to commit suicide by getting over the balustrade of West-
minster-bridge.

Joseph Capel, a young man, said at 12 on Wednesday
night he saw the prisoner hanging over Westminster-
bridge. He had hold of the balustrades with his left hand,
and was suspended in the air. Witness, with assistance,
rescued him from his perilous situation and, took him to
King-street police station, on the road to which he at-
tempted to escape.
The prisoner, who could :not speak English, had the
evidence interpreted by his brother, and said nothing to
the charge.
In answer to Mr. Selfe, the brother said he was a cabinet-
maker, and his father a printer in Zurich. He had work,
and sent over for his brother, his father paying the pas-
sage. Work being short, he went in search of some on
Wednesday, leaving his brother at home ; be said ho could
not stop alone—he would sooner be out of the world, and
having quieted him left the house. When he returned ho
had gone, and could not be found. He was not right in
his head. Neither witness nor the father could afford to
pay for his being sent home, although he wanted to go
there. He requested a remand, so that he might make
some arrangement for sending him home.
Remanded till Thursday.

LAMBETH.
ROBBERY AND ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.--John
William
Davison, aged 19, described as a labourer, was charged
before the sitting magistrate at this court with stealing a
quantity of valuable fowls, and with committing a mur-
derous assault on the police.
Thomas Weekeby, of Cross-street, and Thos. William
Kelking, of Wood's-buildings, East-lane, Walworth-road,
identified the fowls, which included same handsome game-
cocks that were stolen from their premises on Tuesday
morning last. The former identified the prisoner as one
of four men whom he saw on his grandmother's premises
at 4 o'clock in the morning, and one of the men was carry-
ing a large parcel.