The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1868.

SHARE LlST.—This Day.

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ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

I I Closing Business
a hare, Railways. ; Paid.' •
at Bristol and Exeter 100 11:3r0et.5_84 done.
at Caledonian lOO ' 8311 84 811 2
at Cambrian
Cork and
10 Cornwall all 3 4
at Dublin & Belfast June lOO 75 77
at Dun„Pertli,& Ab.J mac lOO 70 72
100 !';.London, Scrip Ce:tl all
Do. 190 d
st Glasgow &S. Western. 100 IC4 106
at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 24 301 2)1
at Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 100 5: 04
at Urzat Northot Scotland 100 15 6
at Great Northern lOO 103) 1C45 1041
at Du. A stock .. 100 104 BA; 105
at Do. 11 stock 1100 121 125
at Do. New, is. at 25 pm 10,—
at Gt 6, and W. of Ireland 100 05 97
at b 1 t. We,.tcrn Ito 455 10 45
at Do. 6. Val. Rail. gui. 100
•t Do. South %Vales ico 45 47
at Do. W. Mid.—Oxlon 100 25 30
at Do. Newport
at ,)o. Iler‘ford ..... 100
at LaucaShire Yorkt,i.tr, 100 126 126. 1;:61
st Landon and Blackwell 100
at Lon., ttrigh.,4. S Coast 100 46 461 i 461
at 1011., What., and Dover 104 181 10 18
at Do. AI etrop. Ex. A lOO 12 15
at Lon. & North vVesieri lOO 116 )16., 116 i
at Lou. w South Webteri lOO 85 67
at Sian., Shel., & Liucol, 100 Ii ii
at Metropolitan 11:1
at Do. Nev:
at Do. Exteuaion all 11 10
at 1 Metropolitan _District. all • -
10 t l 1)0. do. do. 10
10 Do. and 3t. John's Vrd G—
at Midland
Do. £9 Share 7
at Do, Uirmin.. & Durt, 100 75 77 7'
Mid Kent . . all
at North British
at Do. Ed., I'th., St Dun. 109
at Nth. Eastern —Berwien 100 ; 105 107 1021 3
25 Do. G.N•E purehast. 16.13.1'
et Do. Leeds ..... 100 I 63 64
at Do. York lOO 193 100 05
t. 1/4. Carlisle
at 110. dtook..rl. Dar iing. all ' i. 4 136
45 Do. do. 1860-61 lB p
at North London
at Do. do. 1864 5 10
Do. do. 1866 .. •
10 North Staffordshire
at N. &3. W. Junction
at !Scottish Central
•Sout. N. E ,Aber. stock 100
Soot, %lid. stuck lOO
Shropshire Union
at South Devon lOO 43 I.
st South Eastern
40 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 9 lu 94
at fail Vale lOO 146 150
10 Do. C 5
1' ale of Neath -
- Waterford & Kilkenny 100 -
10 Waterloo & Whiteha i 6
West Cornwall lOO
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
'BrillSlColumbia, 6 pert
cent., Deo. 31, 1172 1 100
Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July
1877-81
Do. 6p. o. Feb. & 100 100 102
:Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept: lOU 100 102
Do. sp. o. Jan. & July. 100 86 87
'Cape
sp. e. Inscribed ski 100 85 87
Cape U.llope, 6 p.c.18721 100 103 105
Do.Apl.& Oct 18110-19001 100 107 109
Do. do 1880-90 100 106 106
Do. Jan.drjuly, 1810-11 100 105 107
Do. 5 per oent. 15 April
and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 96 17
Ca) lon, Nov. 1878, 6p. t. 100 11) 11l
Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107
Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873,
Jan. and July
Do. 1878 ...
00. 1882, Mayls, Nov. i 5 100 107 109
NND
..101890,
.1,61:pe .8. bo
je&ar Aug
czinutlloooooo
110(0,
949 100101—
99
N. S.W. Gov.s p•0.,1866 100 -
- Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876, 100 98 99
Do. 5 p.o. ISBB to 1896 100 555 961 951
New Zealand, 6p. cent! 100
Nova Do.
Scotiasper ceunotv... .6.
p... 0 lOO 91 99
,03
sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104
,queensl an d Gov. 6p. c.: 100 103 100
S. Ana. Gov. 6 p,o, 186s-9, 100
I Do. 1878 & upwards 1(,0 110 111
IVio,Gov. p.0..14.&Ja1y 100
1 Do. do, April & Oct , 100 110 112

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW STREET.

CIIALLENGING PASSENGERS TO FlGllT.—Joseph
Smart, a sailor, belonging to her Majesty's ship
Vivid, was charged with being drunk and disorderly
at the Charing-cross terminus of the South Eastern
Railway, assaulting Sergeant Monckton, the detec-
tive officer attached to the station, and William
Ellis, Henry Hubbard, and Joseph London, were
charged with being drunk and attempting to rescue
Smart. They were each fined 10s.

LUNACY PROSECU7ION.

A most important prosecution by the Commissioners in
Lunacy has just concluded by a conviction at the Hertford
Assizes. Mr. Edward Charles James Shaw, surgeon, sur-
rendered before the Lord Chief Justice to take his trial
for misdemeanour, in having wilfully taken the charge of
a lunatic patient named Frances Danvers Weston, for
profit, without the certificate of two medical men as to her
being insane, and without an order by a relative for her
being placed in his charge, and without having a house
licensed for the purpose.—Serjeant Parry and Mr. Poland
conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Commissioners
of Lunacy, instructed by Mr. Law, their solicitor ; Serjeaut
Ballantine and Mr. Willis appeared for the defendant.
The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the
Case to tae jury, stated that Mrs. Weston was a married
lady, of good education and highly accomplished, but
there was not the least doubt that she had been of un-
sound mind for a great many years, and for some consi-
derable time prior to her being placed in a private lunatic
asylum at Egbam, and there was no douLtelie was labour.
ing under the me, t extraerlinery delusions. One
of these delusions was that she ineleretood the lan-
guage of cats, and that they understood her ; she
would walk al out with a cat in her arms and pretend to
hold a conversation with the - • •imal. She also used to say
she was Queen of England, and that she set the fashions.
She was removed from the house at Egham four or five
years ago, a certificate being at that time given to the pro-
prietor of the establishment t' at she was still insane.
Nothing more, it appeared, was heard of her until last
year, when Dr. Blandford and Dr. Bennett, gentlemen of
great knowledge in connection with mental disorders,
went to the establishment of the defendant at Elstree, with
an order from the Lord Chancellor to visit the establish-
ment. They ascertained that Mrs. Weston had been
under the charge of the defendant for a considerable time,
and had only been removed just before the visit in
question. The result of the investigations slimed that
the lady was still in the same state of insanity,
and that EGO a year was paid to the defendant
for taking charge of her. Although a lady of position and
respectability, she appeared to have been employed in the
most menial offices, such as cleaning boots and shoes,
knives and forks, &c., and she had also been required to
work an oat-crushing machine. Upon one occasion she
escaped from the house and wandered about through a
snowstorm, and was taken to the police-station at Barnet,
from whence she was removed by the defendant and his
wife in a dog-cart, and it was clear that the defendant must
have been perfectly well aware of her mental condition, and
that he had kept her without complying with any of those
salutary regulations provided by the Legislature for the
protection of unhappy persons in her condition.—Serjeant
Ballantine interposed in the course of the case for the
prosecution, and said he felt it would be hopeless to strug-
gle against the facts that had been proved, and he felt
compelled to submit on the part of the defendant to a
verdict.—The jury accordingly returned a verdict of guilty.
The defendant was then charged upon a second indictment
with an offence of the same description in reference to a
gentleman named Clode. It appeared that Mr. Clode was
at one time Mayor of Windsor. He carried on the business
of a wine merchant, but unhappily gave way to habits of
intemperance, the result.of which was a softening of the
brain, and it became necessary to place him in an asylum.
It appeared that he had been under the charge of the
defendant for four years at the time the Com.
missioners of Lunacy became acquainted with the
fact. Upon Dr. Blandford and Dr. Bennett going to
the defendant's house they found the unhappy man in
a most wretched state. He was lying on a straw mattress
in the back kitchen, with no other covering than a piece of
old carpet, and the mattress was completely rotted with
his own filth. It appeared that a woman was paid sixpence
a week for cleaning out his room, and when he was disco-
vered the stench was stated to be truly horrible. It ap-
peared that in the first instance £6O a year was paid bythe
friends of the unfortunate gentleman to the defendant for
taking charge of him, but upon his representation that his
dirty habits and his general condition necessitated
greater attention, and that it would be necessary to have
a male attendant for him, the allowance was doubled.
No attendant was ever provided, and the unhappy man
was kept in the same miserable condition. The evidence
of the medical gentlemen as to the mental condition of
Mr. Clode was, that although he was not in the ordinary
sense of the term a lunatic, still that he was completely
imbecile and incompetent to take care of himself or to
manage his affairs, and that he was undoubtedly a person
of unsound mind.—Mr. Serjeant Ballantine upon these
facts argued that the patient was not a lunatic within the
term or meaning of the statute, and that the indictment
could not therefore be supported.—The point was reserved.
The jury (there being no defence) found the prisoner guilty.
After consultation, the Lord Chief Justice sentenced the
prisoner to pay a fine of £lOO and to be imprisoned for two
months for the first offence, and to be imprisoned for six
months and pay a second fine of £lOO for the second,
should it be sustained. Imprisonment till both fines be
paid.