The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

Tilt SUN, LONDON, TITUTRSDAY E %/ENING, AUGUST 26, 1858.

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'3 •ot. N. E, Debenture ,
Et p. c. pre'. •Jtock
IDo. do. Aber, g. 6 p. c
!Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock
(South Devon
axed 44 per eent. .....
&Has (Itead. An.)/08 &d
Do. 44 per cent
Do. fixed 44 p. cent. 1 et in
'Do. New 44 p. cent. 2d is
South Wales guhr. 4 p. ct
Do. do. 44 per colt
Sh.Yorkehlre, 4 p. ct. guo
Stockton & Darling. 5 p. c
Do. do. 5 per cent
Wsiler.& Illkenny a p. ct

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1/loni.Baroda.ti Con.lnc4a,

Do. Additional Capital Al

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180 B.
Buffalo & Lake Huron ....
Do. New
Buffalo,Brant, & Goderict
i 6 c. bds. 1 Aug., 1872
Do. do. 1 July, 1878
Do, do. 1 Juno, 1874
ICalcutta k S. Eastern
!Cape Town & Dock Scrip
Ceutral Oude (Limited)
Ceylon
DeTr,erara
Eastern Bengal .......
Halt Indian

Do. G shares

Do. E shares Eaten
Do, Jubbulpore
'Do. 4# p. c. Bonds, pay.'s9
Geelong and Melbourne,
Geelong Corporation 6 p.

cont. Bonds
Grand Trunk of CEnada
Do. 6 per 0. Debentures
Do. 6 p. c. Prof. LD
Great Indian Peninsula
Do, New 5 pet Gent

Do: do
Groat south of India
Grant Western o: Gairida
Do.turr
Do. bonds payable '76
Do. do. '73, do. '6O
Do. do. '73, w►thc. opt
Do. 5f p.c. do. 77, do

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Do. 41 p. Exton
Do. third Exton, g. 5 p. c
Do. fourth do
New Brans wick, kc. (lim
Do. do. B Capital
gainle, guar. 5 p.
Do. New

Punjaub
Do. Indus Steam Flotilla
Trinidad, Limited, Scrip
Antwerp and BottArditni
Bahia & San Francisco
3eigian Eastern Ju qui=
Boaters to Graissesintc
Oarmeanx &Toulouse
Mitch Rhenish

Eastern of France.
Euphrates Valley
}rent Central o? France.,
3t. Luxembourg, con. she
Italian Junction
Lake Constance and Basle
Lierro and Turnhout
Lombardo Venetian
Lucca 8s Pistols, a p.e.prof
Lyons and Genera
3laria Antonia
Samar Ai Liege
')o. do. 6 per cent. pref
Northern of France
Do. do. new
Vorwealan Trunk Frew
Ottoman

ar.s and Lyons
Paris and 0r1ean5...........
Recife & San Fran., g. 7 p.c
Riga do Dunaburg
Rowe and Frascati
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish ......
Sambre and Meuse

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West Flanders
Do.s4per cent. Prof
nest. & Northn.of France
Western of Austria
Western of Switsetiand ,
Wiesbaden

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100
100
100
I 100

Can. Gov. 6 p.c. Jan.&July,
Do. 6 p.c. Feb.&Aug.'
Do. 6 p.c. 111ar.&Sep.
N. &Gov. 6 p.c. Jan.&July
Do. 6 p.c. Apr. & Oct.
N.S.W.Gov. 5 p. c. Debent.
Nova Scotia Gov. G p.c. St.
Debent. redeemable 1875
S.Aus. Gt. r, p.c. Jan.&July
Viet. Gov. 6 p.c. Jan.&July

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125 128
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21 214
101 11,4
102 104

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100 109 111
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COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—(T his Day.)

(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)

The inquiry into the state of mind of Mr. Ruck was re-
sumed this tno:ming at the large hall, St. Clement Danes.
Mr. Edwin ;Tames, Q.C., addressed the jury on the part of
Mr. Ruck. Having at some length alluded to the painful
nature of investigations similar to the one in which they
were engaged, he said he thought he should be able to place
before them evidence which would entirely remove from
their minds any doubts they might have conceived of the
sanity of Mr. Ruck. It was the misfortune of his client at
one time to have indulged in excessive drinking, to which
cause alone, and not to hereditary lunacy, was the excitement
under which the unfortunate gentleman at one time la-
boured to be attributed. While suffering from delirium,
instead of being looked after with more than usual care, he
was left without control, and it is not to be wondered at that
a person of the then disposition of Mr. Ruck should have
been led into the commission of numerous excesses. It had
been admitted by both Mrs. Ruck and Mr. Barnet, that
Mr. Ruck was perfectly sane in 1837, when he, in company
with his wife and Mr. Barnet, visited the Manchester Ex-
hibition. It was said by his learned friend Sergeant Bal-
lautiae, that his insanity commenced at that period, as he
grew tired of the exhibition. He thought the jury would
be of opinion that the fact of his becoming tired of looking
at the treasures there collected was not a proof of a dis-
ordered mind, but, on the contrary, showed in the clearest
manner that a country squire had been taken to just the
precise place in which he took the least interest. An ante-
diluvian fox would have been of more interest than all
the wonders there placed before him, and the fact that he
wearied of the exhibition being fixed as the beginning of his
insanity was, he thought, absurd. It bad been admitted

that his client was capable of managing his own affairs in

August, and about that time he arrived at his house at
Aberdovey, which appeared to be a very irregular establish-
ment, and there, instead of finding a proper reception, he
experienced quite the contrary. He thought it too much
to say that, because a gentleman laboured under great ex-
citement, produced by excessive drinking, he ought to be
confined for life in a private lunatic asylum. The misfor-
tune of Mr. Ruck in 1857 was intemperance, and this
caused a delusion, which, had it been treated rightly, could
have been cured in a short time; but it appeared that there
bad been, by some persons, an attempt to prevent such a
result. The doctors who had given their evidence during
the investigation had told the jury that if Mr. Ruck was
declared to be of sane mind, they could not take upon them-
selves the responsibility of saying so, because at another

time he might commit same act of violence. Such a theory
was the most extraordinary be had ever heard, and, if fully
carried out, no gentleman suffering from intemperance on a
single occasion would be safe from being taken and impri-
soned in one of those private asylums for life. Various

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incidents bad been related to the jury to prove
Mr. Ruck a hopeless lunatic; but be (Mr. James)
thought that nothing had been adduced inconsistent with
perfect sanity. Dr. Stillwell, when he first saw Mr. Ruck,
was of opinion that be was suffering from excitement pro-
duced by intoxication, and that a short residence at his
establishment would , only be necessary for curative
purposes, but such a treatment had never been prac-
tised ; and had it not been for the steps taken
by Mr. Wainwright, Mr. Ruck would still have
been confined as a confirmed lunatic. The medical
evidence adduced to prove the insanity of Mr. Ruck was,
in his opinion, of the most unsatisfactory nature, and he
thought it was the duty of persons keeping private
asylums to do all that was possible for the restitution
of the patients, and not to convert them into moral
prisoners. The learned gentleman then, in strong terms,
deprecated the system pursued in private asylums, which, he
said, were conducted more like hotels, from which large pro-
fits were derived, than hospitals established for the cure of
mental delusion; and where there was a direct pecuniary
interest in keeping a person there the jury might rest per-
fectly satisfied that the greatest difficulty would be thrown
in the way of perms interesting themselves to procure
the liberation of their unhappy inmates. With respect to the
case of Mr. Ruck four doctors had been set
at him to make him mad, and with what success he would
leave the jury to say after they had heard the whole of the
evidence he should call before them. The opinion he had
arrived at, after the most careful investigation, was, that Mr.
Ruck was a person of sound mind, and perfectly capable of
managing his own affsirs, and such, be confidently believed,
would be their unanimous verdict.

Mr. Fisher, a relative of Mr. Ruck, was then examined by
Mr. Petersdorff—He said, from 1851 till the time he was
confined he saw a great deal of Mr. Ruck. In 1853 Mr.
Ruck space about his quarries—they were valuable—
and during the whole of his conversations be never
betrayed any evidences of a disordered mind. As late as
August, 1857, be thought him in good health. When he
first heard he was in a lunatic asylum he was greatly aston-
ished. It was on the sth of November. He was present at
the interview. Dr. Stillwell said Mr. Ruck appeared as
rational as ever he had known him. He never knew him to
squander his property, on the contrary he was looked upon
as a person of a rather close nature.
The witness was cross• examined by Mr. Montagu Cham-
bers, but the reuilt was, that he was of opinion that Mr.
Ruck was perfectly competent to manage his own affairs.
Mr. E. James, at the conclusion of the examination of the
witness, intimated that he wished to ask a question of Dr.
Stillwell, in reference to the statement be found in his case-
book. It was there stated, after a description of the personal
appearance of Mr. Ruck, that there was hereditary predis-
position in the family to insanity. The words were—" Pre-
disposition partly hereditary and partly intemperance." He
wished to know tbeuthority for that entry ?
Dr. Stillwell said it was on the certificate signed by Dr.
Barnet.

Mr. E. James then read the remainder of the entry, which
went on to say that Mr. Ruck had threatened to shoot Miss
Jones. The learned gentleman said lie should also like to
know how that circumstance came to the knowledge of Dr.
Stillwell ?

Dr. Stillwell replied that Mr. Barnet told :him so.
Mrs. Fisher, wife to the previous witness and sister to
Mr. Ruck, was then examined. She stated that she was
not aware of any insanity in the family from her father
downward. She was present at an interview which took
place between her brother and Dr. Stillwell in November•
She thought him quite competent to manage his ewn affairs.
Mrs. Ruck, the mother of Mr. Ruck, said she was not
aware of nmy insanity in her family. Her husband was
certainly not insane.

proceeding when we went to press. It is
noTthexepceaeste weitaosterminate until late to-morrow.

TRADE ON THE INDUS.

Lnst week we intimated Co —our readers the despatch to
I rdia of the steam trains eGnstructed by the Oriental Inland
for the navigation of the great rivers of India by
Steam Company, under arrangement with the East India
sCtoeammpa.n'ilt se steam trains,
cons:sting in all of twelve vessels,
have been sent to Kurrachee, and are intended to ply upon
the Indus. By the last India mail we have teceived from
Kurrachee a copy cf a pamphlet printed for private circu-
lation, entitled " Metncranda rn the External Trale of
Scinde for 1857-58, by P. M. Dalzell, Deputy Collector of
Customs at Kurrachee," and as the official data there col-
lected illustrate in a conclusive manner the rapid ex'ension
of the trade of the Indus, we propose here to make a few
citations from the pamphlet referred to. Mr. Dalzell opens
his" Memoranda" as follows :—" It will be a matter of gra-
tulation to all interested in the commercial progress of
Scinde to find that its trade for the past official year has im-
mensely increased, notwithstanding the disturbed state of
the country and the general excitement that has prevailed
throughout the whole continent, extending even into Cen-
tral Asia. The external trade of Scinde now amounts to
nearly two and a quarter millions sterling, exclusive of
the value of Government stores, stowing an increase
over the previous year's trade of nearly three-quarters of
a million sterling—equivalent to an increase of 52 per
cent." The main items of increase enumerated are, in
piece goods, Sze 74 per cent. • in metals, 37 per cent.; taw
saltpetre,
,dsrooupgelrits cent.inA ; and grain, 138 per cent.
f2ffshattistan;
silk, 187 per cent. ; wool, 26 per cent.—a deficient increase
oil seeds, 140
shawls increased about twentyfold, or '2,000 per
cpfreeaonrstn tnthcalr
~eidelteu.e ricnscgaile year, and in souse kinds of seeds there had
been an immense increase. Mr. Daizell adds :—" To no
fortuitous cause can this great increase be attributed. It is
perfectly natural, and must prove how vast the resources of
a country must be the export trade of which, in two years,
has nearly doubled itself; a trade the value of which, eight
sears ago, did not much exceed half. a-million sterling,"
not one-fifth part of its present amount. The main impedi-
ment to the more rapid growth of the trade of these exten-
sive districts is the avant of cheap and efficient means of con-
veyance. " What," Mr. Dalzell asks, "can be more detri-
mental to the progress of a trade than to have it arrested on
its
unshipped and reshipped,
and
per cent.? This is pre-
ciselyis subject to ere it reaches
the European market."ceffo
nothing, indeed, is now more
notorious than that the first great want of India is faci-
lity end cheapness of internal conveyance. This want
wtaayxeto
whatdthet to the
the consumingproduceextent
the Oriental Inland Steam Company has been esta-
blished to satisfy; and that it will satisfy it to a consider-
able extent will be apparent to every one who is cognisant
of the nature of that company's operations. Its trains are
specially designed to enable a very large cargo to be carried
without risk upon a light draught of water. Each train, it
is reckoned, will carry 1,000 tons of cargo, weight and mea-
surement, on about two feet of water, and with this cargo a
considerable rate of speed it maintainable. This capability
vastly exceeds that of any vessels plying in India at the pre-
sent time ; and if it be the fact—as it is well known to be—
that existing vessels have long been very profitable, and are
now yielding dividends of about 50 per cent. per annum, a
result at least equally favourable may be expected from these
new vessels, especially as they are the only vessels plying on
the Indian rivers to which a government subsidy has been
granted. Kurrachee is rapidly becoming the great portal of
India. The trade of the Indus and its provinces is fast swell-
ing to gigantic dimensions, and an enterprise specially de-
signed is accommodate this rising trade by experiments of
the most approved efficiency cannot fail, if managed with
ordinary prudence, to he attended with the most prosperous
results. We see, front the company's report, which has just
been issued, that though bat a very small part of its capital
has been called up, its vessels have not only been built but
paid for, including all the supplies necessary to establish
them in the East.—Liverpool Albion.

TIIE CANADIAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Aug. 25,
1858.—The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's screw
steamer North American sailed from the Me:sey at half-past
11 o'clock this morning for Quebec and Montreal, with the
fortnightly mails fee the Canadian provinces, 124 cabin ard
110 average poseßgers, as also a full cargo of nierclandite.