The Sun. — 1860-04-30 (London, England)

THE LATE BARON .B.RUCK.  VIENNA, APRIL 25.  In this country the body of every person who dies suddenly, or within 24 hours from the time of the outbreak of the malady, is subjected to official examination and, in accordance with this regulation, instructions were yesterday given to Dr. Itokitansky, a renewed professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Vienna, and to Dr. Stuhlberger, the Stadt-Physikus (medical man by appointment to the city), to open the corpse of Baron Bruck, and to make known to the Imperial authorities the immediate cause of his decease. Some of the friends of the late Minister yesterday evening stated that his family had insisted on a post mortem examination, "in order to prove to the Vienuese the groundlessness of their suspicions," but there is reason to believe that the Emperor gave positive orders that the cause of the death of the man who so long enjoyed his confidence should be strictly inquired into. Dre. Rokitansky and Stuhlberger began their inquest at ten o'clock this morning, in order to ascertain whether Baron Bruck died a natural death, or whether he poisoned himself during the night of Sunday last. It is now generally related in the city that there is a long incised wound on the neck of the deceased, but persons who are frequently in the company of the widow and her family profess to know nothing of this. Yesterday Baron von Ransonnet, the Director of the Chancellery of the Council of +Ministers, was twice in the palace in which is the Ministry of Finances, and he is said to have demanded and taken away with him the letter written by the Emperor to Baron Bruck on Sunday last. It is thought likely that the papers of the late Minister have been seized, as the high authorities are very desirous to find out what was the nature of his connection with the Trieste merchants who are now in custody. Among the absurd rumours which are in circulation, is one to the effect that Baron Bruck, while Minister of Finance, invested 15,000,000f1. (£1,500,000) in British Government and Bank Stock. About four years ago Von Bruck purchased an estate in Croatia which was valued at 220,000fi., and his heirs are likely to find that he was then able to pay down no more than twothirds of that sum. Information has just been given me that the mortal remains of the unfortunate statesman have already been removed from the apartments which he inhabited in the palace built by the celebrated Prince Eugene of Savoy, in which are the bureau of the Ministry of Finance, to the Calvinist Church in the Dorothea Gasse. The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock to-morrow. To the great astonishment of the public neither the dismissal of Baron Bruck nor his sudden death produced any great impression on the money-market. In fact there was a slight improvement on 'Change yesterday. The Emperor left Vienna on Monday, just as Baron Bruck was breathing his last. His Majesty, who was on his way to the Styrian frontier to shoot capercailsie, must have received information of what had occurred when he quitted the railway carriage at the station at rayerbach. It was yesterday evening related that one of the four gentlemen under examination on the charge of having defrauded the State had hanged himself, but the report is unfounded. The Viennese now talk over-much of suicide, and it would not et all surprise me if the examples recently given by men of rank and note found imitators in inferior circles. There arc moral as well as physical epidemics. The result of the post nortent examination has not yet been 641441110 d,