The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. FRI DAY E V ENING, OCTOBER 18, = 1861.

Their Highnesses the Princesses Wladimir and
Anatole Bariatinsky have left the Clarendon Hotel for
Paris.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and the
Baroness do Cetto have returned to town from Brighton.
THE LATE MAJOR SIBTHORP.--Mr. Beresford
Hope, in a letter to a contemporary, says :—" The notice
of Major Sibthorp's lamented death is incorrect so far as
it relates to me. I was not present at it, nor had I any
communication with him. But, having casually heard of
it on the evening upon which it occurred at St. Leonard's-
on-Sea, I mentioned it in London the next day, whence
must have arisen the rumour connecting me with the
event."

The Castlebar correspondent of the Irish Times
contradicts his own report about one gentleman shooting
another, and says it was raised " for fun" by a military
gentleman.

According to the Indian advices yesterday, a bill
has been passed to enable the banks of Bengal, Madras,
and Bombay to enter into arrangements for managing the
issue, payment, and exchange of the Government currency
notes about to be put in circulation. This will operate in
some slight degree to mitigate the objections which must
always prevail against the Government assuming any
practical part in such matters, and may, perhaps, pave the
way to a sound system in accordance with that which
exists in England.

At a meeting of the Commercial Bank of Sydney,
on the 26th of July, a report was presented showing that
the net profit of the past half year, including the balance
brought from the last account, was £25,432, out of which a
dividend was declared at the rate of 14 per cent. per annum,
and £2,000 added to the reserve, leaving £1,032 to be car-
ried forward. The reserve now stands at £64,000, or 20
per cent, of the capital.

Yesterday the poll for the election of the West-
minster Bondholders' Commissioners was closed, and Mr.
George Ogle and Mr. J. S. Newbon were declared to have
been chosen. The result of the scrutiny of the votes polled
was—Mr. Ogle, 670; Mr. Newbon, 638; Mr. Vance, 624;
Capt. Kennett, 592. The mortgagees have elected Mr.
Wright and Mr. Driver, and the Board of Trade have ap-
pointed Mr. Tite, M.P., chairman of the new Commission.
It may be hoped that every effort will now be made to put
an end to litigation.

THE COMMISSIONAIRES.—To prevent any incon-
venience arising from the temporary absence of a commis-
sionaire from his station, and to enable persons living at
a distance from any established post to secure the services
of a man without delay, the wires of the London District
Telegraph Company have been extended to the Barracks
of the Corps, and an order left at any of the company's sta-
tions (a list of which is published in the monthly circular
of the Corps) will secure the immediate attendance of a
commissionare at any part of London or the suburbs with-
out any charge to the employer for the message.

CRINOLINE IN EXETER-HALL.—A correspondent
says :—" I have applied for some reserved seats for the
oratorio of " Elijah" both at Mr. Mitchell's and at Mr.
Sams's libraries, and I was told there are none to be had.
On inquiry I ascertained the somewhat amusing fact that
nearly 400 seats have been sacrificed to—crinoline I The
hall holds 3,000 seats, of 16 inches each; but the present
fashion requires 18, and reduces the number of sittings by
370 or 375. When Handel produced his " Messiah" for
the benefit of a charity in Dublin the malingers are re-
ported to have requested the ladies to dispense with hoops
for the occasion. Might not the precedent be followed on
the 22d, to enable a greater number of persons to witness
the wondrous performance, and to add nearly £4OO to the
charities in aid of which Madame Lind-Goldschmidt has
consented once more to leave her retirement ?"
BUSINESS AT THE ADMIRALTT.—In 1792 the num-
ber of the letters despatched from the Admiralty was 8,251;
in 1835 it had increased to 31,086; and in 1860 to 68,622,
and that although in this last year a large number of unim-
portant routine letters were no longer registered, and a
considerable number of documents which used to be re
tained at Whitehall are now, when acted upon, sent to
Somerset-house. The pages of entry, 4,402 in 1792, and
10,132 in 1835, were 30,669 in 1860. There was more to
write about ; the artificers in the dockyards increased from
7,884 in 1835 to 18,574 in 1860, and the ships in commission
from 167 to 363. But the Admiralty correspondence is
swelled by an interference in details that might have been
expected to be left to the admirals or commanders-in-chief
at the ports. Rear-Admiral G. Elliot told the Commons' com-
mittee on the Board of Admiralty that he had seen piles of
letters upon most trivial matters lately, for instance a long
correspondence which a lieutenant had had with the Admi-
ralty about a tablecloth, and he believed there were several
copies of the letters made. The lieutenant, it seems, was
tired first ; he could not get his pay, and therefore made his
tablecloth a flag of truce, and came to terms of peace.

THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL HUTTON.—Major-
General Hutton, whose death we announced a few days
since, had served for a period of nearly 50 years in India.
He received a cadetcy in the Madras Army in 1811, was
gazetted Ensign in the 22d Madras Native Infantry on the
11th of June, 1812, and joined his regiment in India on the
13th of July of the same year, from which time till his
death he served in that country, with the exception of occa-
sional periods of absence on medical certificate, amounting
in the whole to about seven years, General Hutton was
employed against the rebels in Rajah mundy in 1813-14,
against the Pindaree inroads in 1815-16; he served with his
regiment in the Mahratta campaign, with the light field
force against the ex-Rajah of Nagpore in 1819, and in the
campaign in Burmah in 1825-26. General Hutton held
command of regiments for 13 years. In 1839-40 he was ap-
pointed one of the Commissioners to investigate the charges
against the eldest brother of the Nizam, and was Assistant-
Adjutant-General of the Hyderabad subsidiary force. He
held the command of the garrison at Fort St. George,
Madras, and the commands of the Saugor and Southern
divisions. General Hutton had received the medal for Ave.
By his death, which occurred at Yizianagram on the 28th
of August last, the colonelcy of the 22d Regiment of Her
Majesty's Madras Army becomes vacant. The dates of his
commissions are as follows :—Ensign, June 11, 1812; Lieu-
tenant, September 17, 1815 ; Captain, January 15, 1826 ;
Major, November 11, 1839; Lieutenant-Colonel, Novem-
ber 3, 1844; Colonel, June 2, 1854 ; Major-General, July
4, 1856.

JUDICIAL TORTURE IN HUNGARY.—The Gazette
des lribunaux relates an almost incredible act of judicial
torture in Hungary :—" Two soldiers, brothers, of the name
of Varga, on furlough in the town of Koertselye, Comitat
of Sapatumare, having been accused of having committed
a burglary in a public-house, were taken before a police
magistrate, Erdelyi by name. He questioned them, but
they firmly protested that they were innocent. As he
could not succeed in making them confess, he sent for two
pandours from the nearest guard-house, and by his orders
they tied cords tightly round the thumbs of each
man, and pulled them until blood flowed, then they placed
each man's arms in such a way that the hands were be-
hind his head, and they bound the wrists fast together ;
next they passed a cord from the wrists beneath his legs,
pulled it as tight as possible, and tied it round his neck.
Though suffering dreadfully, the two men were again
interrogated, but they persisted in affirming their inno-
cence, and the magistrate declared that if they would
not confess ho would leave them in that state until the
next day. At length one of them, overcome, fainted, and
one of thepandours threw water in his face until he
wl,
endure par-
tially
recovered consciousness, and then the man pushed
him h
brutally ' As you are a soldier,
you
saying
suffering.' After bearing
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against
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to
a wall,
the dreadful torture for about 20 minutes, the two young
soldiers, in order to obtain relief, said that they had comrn
witted the burglary, and their bonds were removed.
Erdeyli then told them that as they were at liberty they
must renew the confession they had made, but they declared
that they had only admitted guilt to escape from torture,
and that in reality they had nothing to do with the bur-
glary. On that Erdelyi struck them in the face, and
ordered that they should again be subjected to torture, but
from terror the two young men again admitted that they
were guilty. A note of their admission was taken down in
writing, and they were sent to prison to await trial; but a
few hours after they felt so ill that they had to be removed
to the hospital. The superior magistrate of the district
was informed of what had taken place, and he at once had
Erdelyi lodged in prison on the double charge of torturing
the young men, and of usurping the functions of the mili.
tary tribunal by treating them as if they were civilians,
instead of handing them over to the military authorities.
The two brothers were afterwards tried by the military tri-
bunal for the alleged charge of burglary, but they were ac-
quitted. As to Erdelyi, he rem .ins in prison."

Lord Monboddo was considered an able lawyer,
and on many occasions exhibited a very clear and correct
judicial discernment of intricate cases. It was one of his
peculiarities that he never; sat on the bench with his brother
judges, but always at the clerk's table. Different reasons
for this practice have been given, but the simple fact seems
to have been, that he was deaf, and heard better at the
lower seat. His mode of travelling was on horseback. He
scorned carriages, on the ground of its being unmanly to
" sit in a box drawn by brutes." When he went to Lon-
don he rode the whole way. At the same period, the late
➢lr. Barclay of ITry (father of the late laird), when he re-
presented Kincardineshire in Parliament, always walked
to London. He was a very powerful man, and could walk
fifty miles a day, his usual refreshment on the road being a
bottle of port wine, poured into a bowl, and drunk off at a
draught. I have heard that George 111. was much inte-
rested at these performances, and said " I ought to be proud
of my Scottish subjects, when my juiges ride and my
members of Parliament walk to the metropolis. On one
occasion of his being in London, Lord Monboddo attended
a trial in the Court of King's Bench. A cry was heard that
the roof of the court-room was giving Way, upon which
judges, lawyers, and people made a rush to get to the door.
Lord Monboddo viewed the scene from his corner with
much composure. Being deaf and short-sighted, he knew
nothing of the cause of the tumult. The alarm proved a
false. one ; and on being asked why he had not bestirred him-
self to escape like the rest, he coolly answered that he sup-
posed it was an annual ceremony with which, as an alien
to the English laws, he had no concern, but which he con-
sidered it interesting to witness as a remnant of antiquity.
Lord Monboddo died 1799.—Reminiscences of Scottish Life
amf Character.